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This is the first of four chapters dealing further with each of the four main subjects introduced in Chapter 2.The purpose is to describe them in sufficient detail to equip the reader with the necessary knowledge to carry out predictions of sonar performance in realistic situations.The first subject of the four, and that of the present chapter, is oceanography.The remaining three are underwater acoustics (see Chapter 5), sonar signal processing (Chapter 6), and detection theory (Chapter 7).

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