Directionality of sperm whale sonar clicks and its relation to piston radiation theory

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Beedholm, Kristian ^a   Møhl, Bertel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSICAL MODEL; PISTON THEORY; SOUND RADIATING; SPERM WHALE SONAR CLICKS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PISTONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SONAR;

ARTICLE; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTRICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RECORDING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPERM; THEORETICAL STUDY; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM WHALE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 31744434603     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2161799     Document Type: Article

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