@article {stephen_three-dimensional_2019,
	title = {Three-dimensional bottom diffraction in the North Pacific},
	journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
	volume = {146},
	number = {3},
	year = {2019},
	note = {Publisher: Acoustical Society of America},
	pages = {1913{\textendash}1922},
	abstract = {A significant aspect of bottom-interaction in deep water acoustic propagation, from point sources to point receivers, is the diffraction (or scattering) of energy from discrete seafloor locations along repeatable, deterministic paths in three-dimensions. These bottom-diffracted surface-reflected (BDSR) paths were first identified on the North Pacific acoustic laboratory experiment in 2004 (NPAL04) for a diffractor located on the side of a small seamount. On the adjacent deep seafloor, ambient noise and propagation in the ocean sound channel were sufficiently quiet that the BDSRs were the dominant arrival. The ocean bottom seismometer augmentation in the North Pacific (OBSANP) experiment in June{\textendash}July 2013 studied BDSRs at the NPAL04 site in more detail. BDSRs are most readily identified by the arrival time of pulses as a function of range to the receiver for a line of transmissions. The diffraction points for BDSRs occur on the relatively featureless deep seafloor as well as on the sides of small seamounts. Although the NPAL04 and OBSANP experiments had very different geometries the same diffractor location is consistent with observed arrivals in both experiments within the resolution of the analysis. On OBSANP the same location excites BDSRs for 77.5, 155, and 310 Hz transmissions.},
	issn = {0001-4966},
	doi = {10.1121/1.5125427},
	url = {https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.5125427},
	author = {Stephen, Ralph A. and Bolmer, S. Thompson and Worcester, Peter F. and Dzieciuch, Matthew A. and Udovydchenkov, Ilya A.}
}
@article {stephen_deep_2009,
	title = {Deep seafloor arrivals: An unexplained set of arrivals in long-range ocean acoustic propagation},
	journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
	volume = {126},
	number = {2},
	year = {2009},
	note = {Publisher: Acoustical Society of America},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {599{\textendash}606},
	abstract = {Receptions, from a ship-suspended source (in the band 50{\textendash}100Hz 50 {\textendash} 100 Hz ) to an ocean bottom seismometer (about 5000m 5000 m depth) and the deepest element on a vertical hydrophone array (about 750m 750 m above the seafloor) that were acquired on the 2004 Long-Range Ocean Acoustic Propagation Experiment in the North Pacific Ocean, are described. The ranges varied from 50to3200km 50 to 3200 km . In addition to predicted ocean acoustic arrivals and deep shadow zone arrivals (leaking below turning points), {\textquotedblleft}deep seafloor arrivals,{\textquotedblright} that are dominant on the seafloor geophone but are absent or very weak on the hydrophone array, are observed. These deep seafloor arrivals are an unexplained set of arrivals in ocean acoustics possibly associated with seafloor interface waves.},
	issn = {0001-4966},
	doi = {10.1121/1.3158826},
	url = {https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.3158826},
	author = {Stephen, Ralph A. and Bolmer, S. Thompson and Dzieciuch, Matthew A. and Worcester, Peter F. and Andrew, Rex K. and Buck, Linda J. and Mercer, James A. and Colosi, John A. and Howe, Bruce M.}
}
