Correlating whale strandings with Navy exercises off Southern California

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 445-451

  Filadelfo, Ronald ^a   Pinelis, Yevgeniya K ^a   Davis, Scott ^a   Chase, Robert ^a   Mintz, Jonathon ^a   Wolfanger, Jessica ^a   Tyack, Peter L ^b   Ketten, Darlene R ^c   D'Amico, Angela ^d  

^a CNA CORPORATION   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

Military sonar; Whale strandings

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SONAR; STRANDING; WHALE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS; MAMMALIA; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 77951733441     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.35.4.2009.445     Document Type: Article

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