Figure 7: The bathymetry along a line perpendicular to the AVR axis passing
through Quail. (b) A bathymetric profile across the AVR passing through
its centre. Both (a) and (b) are derived from swath bathymetry data collected
during the RAMESSES experiment and plotted with no vertical exaggeration.
The vertical axes show the depth below sea level. (c) shows the model with
central AVR seafloor topography included which fits the data to RMS 2.3.
The source positions are marked (S1 and S2 for the first and second tows
respectively). Limitations in the number of model parameters which could
be included before the problem became intractable meant that only the main
features of the across axis topography were included. Resistivities are
maked in . (d) The solid line shows the response of the final model shown in
(c). Parameterisation limitations meant that the 11 Hz response could not
be calculated with the seafloor topography included, and therefore the result
with a flat seafloor is shown. The solid dots show the on axis 0.35 Hz response
of the model when the topography around instrument Quail shown in (a) is
used instead of the central AVR topography. Also shown (dashed line) is
the off-axis response when the 1
lens and surrounding 2.5
region are removed
from the model. In this case the difference between the 0.35 Hz and 0.75~Hz
response between 8 and 15 km range is small demonstrating that the the frequency
difference cannot explain the difference in amplitude.}