Abstract: Using RAM (Range dependent Acoustic Model) model which was based on parabolic equation algorithm and combined Argo floats with multi-satellite data, effects of typhoon on acoustic propagation characteristics for incomplete deep-sound channel(3 000 m) and complete deep-sound channel(5 500 m) were researched. Results show that the influence of typhoon on sea water is confined in surface layer, which is characterized by the thickening of the mixed-layer, zero temperature gradient and positive sound speed gradient in the mixed-layer. At a certain depth below the mixed-layer, the water temperature increases, and the corresponding sound speed increases. When the sound source is placed in the mixed-layer, sound propagation in sea surface layer will be affected, the surface waveguide sound propagation and leakage modes appear in both incomplete and complete deep-sound channels. When the source is under the mixed layer, typhoon makes the convergence zone close to the sound source under the condition of incomplete deep-sound channel.Under the condition of complete deep-sound channel, the disturbance of typhoon on the location of convergence zone is not obvious, but the flip depth of the sound wave increases nearly 500 m.

Key words: typhoon, the western Pacific Ocean, sound propagation, parabolic equation