The influence of sea ice, wind speed and marine mammals on Southern Ocean ambient sound

This paper describes the natural variability of ambient sound in the Southern Ocean, an acoustically pristine marine mammal habitat. Over a 3-year period, two autonomous recorders were moored along the Greenwich meridian to collect underwater passive acoustic data. Ambient sound levels were strongly...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Menze, Daniel P. Zitterbart, Ilse van Opzeeland, Olaf Boebel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160370