Research on the Distance of the Active Sonar under the Effects of the Thermocline

The existence of thermocline changes the acoustic structure and effects the direction of the sound rays.This paper analyzes the working process of the active sonar,and the mathematical models.The detection probability of the active sonar under thermocline is studied.First,the detection distance without thermocline is estimat-ed,then the effect of thermocline's depth and sound velocity changes on detecting submarine probability are discussed,and based an this,the effects of the sea condition on searching submarine probability is discussed,lastly the distance of active sonar is calculated under ther-mocline. The results indicate that under thermocline,the distance of the active sonar becomes obvious short,and with the sea condition becoming rough,the effect is more clear.