Sound Signal Scintillation Approach in the Acoustic Modeling of the Current Speed Profile in the Fram Strait.

The results of mathematical model measurements of the speed of the transverse current in the Fram Strait are presented. The method is based on the statistical processing of the propagation time fluctuations of the probing signals along 16 acoustic tracks. The dependence of the sound velocity on depth is assumed to correspond to winter conditions. For the imitation of the current, the three-dimensional field of environmental inhomogeneities observed in the strait is computed. The complex profile of the current in the direction across the strait is represented by the motion of 10 layers of this field that move with different velocities. The measuring system consists of four transmitters and four receivers positioned near both coasts of the strait. The rays used for the measurements do not touch the bottom and do not change their type under the effect of environmental inhomogeneities crossing the acoustic tracks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]