Sound Field Fluctuations in Shallow Water in the Presence of Moving Nonlinear Internal Waves

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper presents a sound field fluctuations in the presence of internal waves. The methodology is presented well along with the results. Few minor comments are as follows:

1) The figure numbers are not correct in few places.

2) Few more references can be added to the introduction based on the analysis of internal waves using other analysis techniques on acoustic data.

3) Page 6. Line 189: It was mentioned that the soliton is moving at 45 degress but it was not possible to know it at this moment. If it was taken from a reference then it should be mentioned or if its based on the analysis of the thermistor data presented later then it should be mentioned too.

Author Response

In the paper substantial editorial work has been done to improve the English text and all noticed typos have been corrected

Reviewer 2 Report

The spectra of the intensity fluctuations for the nonlinear internal waves (NIWs) were analyzed to study the inverse problems of the parameters of moving NIWs. The theoretical values of the dominant frequency reproduced the experimental values relatively well, even when the phase velocity of the NIW was reduced by a factor of two and the depth of the waveguide was reduced by a factor of three. Some sentences were difficult to understand, so the English sentences should be corrected.

Author Response

1) Figure numbers and all noticed typos have been corrected

2) 3 references were added to the list of literature with the corresponding explanation concerned with other effects and analysis of the sound propagation in the presence of internal waves

3) On the page 6 additional reference was mentioned concerned with Satellite observation (ref.[4]) where angle between direction of propagation of NIW and acoustic track was estimated