Monitoring Air-Sea Exchange Processes Using the High Frequency Ambient Sound Field

Abstract

The ambient sound field contains information about the processes generating the sound and the intervening media modifying the sound. This research seeks to demonstrate measurement of useful ocean surface processes using passive measurements of the high frequency underwater ambient sound field. This will allow passive monitoring of environmental conditions from simple and robust sensors, namely hydrophones. In turn, given environmental weather conditions, predictive Naval ocean ambient noise models will be improved. This technique introduces no acoustic disturbance to the environment, and is hence covert and poses no potential harm to marine mammals or other forms of life in the ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627216

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey Aaron Nystuen

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Ambient Noise
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Marine Mammals
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Noise
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Rain Gages
  • South China Sea
  • Underwater Sound

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Oceanography.