ABSTRACT
Turbulent media are very frequently occurring in nature and are the most difficult ones to deal with. Turbulent flows are found in the Earth’s atmosphere, jet streams, cumulous clouds, the photosphere of stars, smoke plumes, air flows around ships and airplanes, in rivers, and in oceanic flows. The optical turbulence is well explained by the presence of irregularities in the refractive index or, so-called; “turbulent eddies,” appearing due to fluctuations in various physical properties of matter, such as temperature, pressure and concentration of inhomogeneous chemical content. For propagation in the classic atmospheric turbulence several power spectra of the refractive index are frequently used in the literature subject to the choice: analytic tractability of the results versus their accuracy. The model for the power spectrum of the refractive-index fluctuations in the turbulent ocean waters can be obtained as the linearized polynomial of two variables: the temperature fluctuations and the salinity fluctuations.
