Ocean acoustics studies how sound propagates through seawater, where it travels nearly five times faster than in air and can be guided thousands of kilometers by natural waveguides. The ocean's layered temperature and salinity structure bends, focuses, and scatters acoustic waves in ways that enable submarine detection, underwater communication, and remote sensing of ocean climate.
These simulations let you explore the SOFAR channel waveguide, balance the sonar equation for target detection, reconstruct ocean temperature via acoustic tomography, analyze ambient noise from wind and shipping, and trace sound rays through realistic ocean profiles — bringing the hidden acoustic landscape of the deep sea to life.