North Pacific right whale up-call source levels and propagation distance on the southeastern Bering Sea shelf

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4047-4054

  Munger, Lisa M ^a,b   Wiggins, Sean M ^a   Hildebrand, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; AMBIENT NOISE; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; BERING SEA; CRITICALLY ENDANGERED; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; NOISE CONDITIONS; NORMAL MODES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN NOISE; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RIGHT WHALES; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SHALLOW-WATER; SOURCE LEVEL; SPECTROGRAMS; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

ANIMALS; FREQUENCY BANDS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 79959476968     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3557060     Document Type: Article

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