Low-frequency ambient sound in the North Pacific: Long time series observations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3189-3200

  Curtis, Keith R ^a   Howe, Bruce M ^a   Mercer, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIP; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0032761456     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428173     Document Type: Article

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