Off-axis effects on the multipulse structure of sperm whale usual clicks with implications for sound production

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3337-3345

  Zimmer, Walter M X ^a   Madsen, Peter T ^b   Teloni, Valeria ^c   Johnson, Mark P ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^b  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; HYDROPHONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BENT HORN THEORY; MULTIPURPOSE STRUCTURE; PULSE PATTERN; SPERM WHALES;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOUND; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ALCOHOLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM WHALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 27744447033     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2082707     Document Type: Article

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