A 50 year comparison of ambient ocean noise near San Clemente Island: A bathymetrically complex coastal region off Southern California

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1985-1992

  McDonald, Mark A ^a   Hildebrand, John A ^b   Wiggins, Sean M ^b   Ross, Donald ^c  

^a WhaleAcoustics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COASTAL ZONES; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LANDFORMS; SPEED;

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; AMBIENT NOISE; COASTAL REGIONS; NOISE LEVELS; OCEAN AMBIENT NOISE; OCEAN NOISE; OPEN WATER; SEA FLOORS; SHALLOW WATERS; SHIP NOISE; SOUND LEVELS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPECTRAL BANDING; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEEDS; WIND-DRIVEN WAVES;

SHIPS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEASHORE; SHIP; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; MOTION; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRESSURE; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 53949101105     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967889     Document Type: Article

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