The invention discloses a shallow underwater acoustic channel model establishment and calculation method, mainly including the following steps: step 1, proposing a geometric model consistent with an actual situation; step 2, proposing a reference model for mathematical analysis, deriving a time-varying channel impulse response of a fading channel reference model, and further deriving a probabilitydensity function of an angle of departure and an angle of arrival as well as an expression of the UWA channel model propagation time and frequency delay; step 3, establishing an SOC random channel simulation model for experimental simulation based on the reference model, and proposing an equal-area scattering method to parameterize the channel simulation model; step 4, adopting a traditional Lp standard method to parameterize the simulation channel model, and comparing the performance of the two methods; and step 5, obtaining a theoretical result, and performing analysis. According to the shallow underwater acoustic channel model establishment and calculation method disclosed by the invention, an MESS parameterization method is adopted, the method is relatively simple in parameter calculation, a function closure analytic expression can be obtained, and compared with the traditional Lp method, the numerical precision is also accurate and efficient.