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The surface and bottom of the ocean are highly complex boundaries. They are usually rough, and underwater ground is an essentially inhomogeneous medium. However, even regarding the boundaries as plane and the media as homogeneous, it is still possible to obtain useful results. This case will be considered in this chapter. In addition, we shall limit ourselves to the simplest case of plane waves. At the initial stage of the theory presented below, media are assumed to be liquid. This theory is completely applicable to the air-water interface and approximately (but not badly) to the water-ground boundary.
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Brekhovskikh, L., Lysanov, Y. (1982). Reflection of Sound from the Surface and Bottom of the Ocean. Plane Waves. In: Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics. Springer Series in Electrophysics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02342-6_3
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