Accession Number:

AD1013898

Title:

Quantifying Acoustic Uncertainty Due to Marine Mammals and Fish Near the Shelfbreak Front off Cape Hatteras

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole United States

Personal Author(s):

• Lynch,James F.
• Gawarkiewicz,Glen
• Lin,Ying-Tsong
• Newhall,Arthur E.

Report Date:

2015-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

The long term goals of our work on acoustic uncertainty due to fish and marine mammals are to 1 understand the nature of low-to-medium frequency 100-2000 Hz acoustic scattering specifically reverberation and attenuation by fish schools and larger marine mammals, 2 advance our acoustic methods of quantitatively imaging fish schools and tracking vocalizing marine mammals, and 3 understand the correlation between the detailed physical oceanography and the biology and acoustics.

Descriptors:

• marine biology
• underwater acoustics
• acoustic signals
• low frequency
• medium frequency
• oceanography
• FISHES
• scattering
• bathymetry
• noise sound
• broadband
• simulation
• UNDERWATER VEHICLES
• continental shelves
• uncertainty

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE