Statistics and vertical directionality of low-frequency ambient noise at the North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory site

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 II, 2005, Pages 1643-1665

  Baggeroer, Arthur B ^a   Scheer, Edward K ^b   Colosi, J A ^b   Cornuelle, B D ^c   Dushaw, B D ^d   Dzieciuch, M A ^c   Howe, B M ^d   Mercer, J A ^d   Munk, W H ^c   Spindel, R C ^d   Worcester, P F ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS LABORATORIES; DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA SETS; FREQUENCY BANDS; OCTAVE BANDS; VERTICAL DIRECTIONALITY;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; EARTHQUAKE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HISTOGRAM; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIPPING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SPECTRUM; STATISTICS; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; ROC CURVE; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 20144361833     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1855035     Document Type: Article

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