Gloria — may refer to:In Catholic liturgy and music* Gloria in Excelsis Deo , the main doxology of the Catholic Mass **Gloria (Vivaldi), a musical setting of the doxology by Antonio Vivaldi **Gloria (Poulenc), a composition written in 1959 by Francis… … Wikipedia
Sonar — This article is about underwater sound propagation. For atmospheric sounding, see SODAR. For other uses, see Sonar (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Side-scan sonar — (also sometimes called side scan sonar, sidescan sonar, side looking sonar, side looking sonar and bottom classification sonar) is a category of sonar system that is used to create efficiently an image of large areas of the sea floor. This tool… … Wikipedia
Marine mammals and sonar — A Humpback whale Active sonar, the transmission equipment used on some ships to assist with navigation, has been suggested[1] to be detrimental to the health and livelihood of some marine animals, although the precise mechanisms for this are not… … Wikipedia
Baffles (submarine) — Baffles redirects here. For other uses, see Baffle (disambiguation). Example diagram of the baffles of a submarine, showing the directional arc behind a submarine where the sonar is ineffective. The baffles is the area in the water directly… … Wikipedia
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler — Head of an ADCP with the four transducers ADCP view ahead, mo … Wikipedia
SOFAR channel — The SOFAR channel (short for Sound Frequency and Ranging channel), or deep sound channel (DSC),[1] is a horizontal layer of water in the ocean at which depth the speed of sound is minimal. The SOFAR channel acts as a waveguide for sound, and low… … Wikipedia
Ocean acoustic tomography — The western North Atlantic showing the locations of two experiments that employed ocean acoustic tomography. AMODE, the Acoustic Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment (1990 1), was designed to study ocean dynamics in an area away from the Gulf Stream,… … Wikipedia
