During the SW06 experiment conducted east off the New Jersey continental shelf from July to September of 2006, internal wave surface expression and water temperature profiles were recorded when phase shift keying signals (PSK) were transmitted to study internal wave effects on coherent underwater acoustic communications at low to mid frequency bands. The collected communications data are processed using time reversal multichannel combining followed by a decision feedback equalizer. Due to the presence of internal waves, the acoustic channels show a time-varying property. Continuous channel updates prior to time reversal combining are required to combat fast channel fluctuations. The communications performance in terms of output signal-to-noise ratio exhibits significant change due to the internal waves. Further, the internal wave effects on the performance of coherent acoustic communications exhibit a frequency- and depth- dependency. The choices of receiver parameters also can be affected by the presence of internal waves.

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