Ocean noise in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2681-2689

  Širović, Ana ^a   Wiggins, Sean M ^a   Oleson, Erin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; OCEAN AMBIENT NOISE; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRUM LEVELS; VOLUNTARY OBSERVING SHIPS; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCY BANDS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; SHIPS; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SEASON; SHIP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRESSURE; SEASONS; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 84885404220     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4820884     Document Type: Article

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