A flume experiment to examine underwater sound generation by flowing water

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-462

  Tonolla, Diego ^a,b   Lorang, Mark S ^c   Heutschi, Kurt ^d   Tockner, Klement ^a,b,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Hydrogeomorphology; Hydrophone; Physical generated sound; Sound propagation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; FLUME EXPERIMENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROPHONE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE; SOUND PROPAGATION; WATER FLOW; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 70449531504     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-009-0111-5     Document Type: Article

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