Modeling acoustic propagation of airgun array pulses recorded on tagged sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4100-4114

  DeRuiter, Stacy L ^a   Tyack, Peter L ^a   Lin, Ying Tsong ^a   Newhall, Arthur E ^a   Lynch, James F ^a   Miller, Patrick J O ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING; SOUND RECORDING;

AIRGUN ARRAY PULSES; HIGH FREQUENCY SOUND; PARABOLIC EQUATION (PE);

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; AIRGUN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOMETRY; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND; SPECTRUM; SPERM WHALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; WEAPON;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM WHALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845362746     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2359705     Document Type: Article

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