Acoustic properties of humpback whale songs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1103-1110

  Au, Whitlow W L ^a   Pack, Adam A ^b   Lammers, Marc O ^a   Herman, Louis M ^b   Deakos, Mark H ^c   Andrews, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Dolphin Institute   (United States)

^c Hawaii Association for Marine Education and Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BANDWIDTH; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROPHONES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FREQUENCY LIMITS; HIGH-FREQUENCY HARMONICS; HYDROPHONE SIGNALS; SOUND EXPOSURE;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; HEARING; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGING; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; HUMPBACK WHALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33747064685     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2211547     Document Type: Article

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