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While conventional methods typically assume constant relative velocity, practical UWA environments frequently involve non\u2010zero acceleration arising from autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) maneuvers, drifting platforms, or environmental dynamics, which introduces additional time\u2010varying distortion. This acceleration\u2010induced Doppler effect results in nonlinear time scaling and frequency offset that significantly degrade receiver performance if left unaddressed. In this paper, a novel method to estimate and compensate for the Doppler scale caused by acceleration in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)\u2010based UWA systems is proposed. The proposed estimation algorithm leverages the inherent redundancy between the cyclic prefix (CP) and its replica in each OFDM symbol to extract phase\u2010based measurements without requiring grid search. A baseband\u2010domain compensation scheme is also proposed to mitigate both phase and timing distortions. Simulation results under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), synthetic multipath and realistic waymark channel conditions demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves accurate estimation and reliable compensation performance across a broad range of acceleration scenarios. 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