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Tatarski [V. I. Tatarski, Wave Propagation in a Turbulent Medium (McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1960)] has derived an expression for the effective scattering cross section of an acoustic wave incident on a remote volume of atomospheric turbulence. His result is subject to the single scatter approximation and the restriction that both transmitter and receiver be in the farfield of the large scale inhomogeneities within the volume. We derive an expression for the effective scattering cross section valid in both the near and farfield and extend these results to include the scatter of acoustic waves from underwater turbulence.