Spectrum of Gas Bubbles and Possibilities of Acoustic Spectroscopy in the Surface Layer of the Ocean

摘要

The surface layer of the ocean is characterized by anomalously high concentrations of gas bubbles. The distributions of bubbles in the seawater column and their distributions by size g(R) were studied on the basis of different methods (mainly on the basis of optical and acoustic methods). The results of studies have been published in a large number of papers [1-7]. Practically all types of functions g(R) suggested in the literature have significant drawbacks manifested in the divergences of the integrals for the calculation of effective parameters of water with bubbles (compressibility, sound velocity, nonlinear parameters, etc.) [6, 7].