Abstract: The spatial correlation in shallow water with inclined seafloor is studied in this paper.The sound spatial correlation coefficients are calculated by numerical simulation based on the parabolic equation method.There are connections between the spatial correlation coefficients and some parameters, such as the inclined angle of seafloor, the range between the receiver and the reference hydrophone, and the depths of the reference hydrophone and the source.These connections are discussed with the results from the 2001 Asian Seas International experiment.For upslope bottom, the spatial correlations decrease with the increases of the inclined angle of seafloor and the hydrophone separation, and the sound filed vertical correlation coefficients become fluctuant after decreasing as the range between the receiver and the reference hydrophone increasing.