Analysis of deep ocean sound attenuation at very low frequencies

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1438-1444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl C. Focke ◽  
S. K. Mitchell ◽  
C. W. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Sound Attenuation ◽  
Low Frequencies

An Analysis of Deep Ocean Sound Attenuation at Very Low Frequencies

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl C. Focke ◽  
Stephen K. Mitchell ◽  
Sr Horton ◽  
Claude W.
Keyword(s):  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Sound Attenuation ◽  
Low Frequencies

Wind dependence of deep ocean ambient noise at low frequencies

1993 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 782-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Chapman ◽  
J. W. Cornish
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Noise ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Low Frequencies

scholarly journals Sound attenuation by conglomerates of bubbles at low frequencies

1976 ◽  
Vol 60 (S1) ◽  
pp. S35-S35
Author(s):  
K. J. Diercks ◽  
W. B. Huckabay
Keyword(s):  
Sound Attenuation ◽  
Low Frequencies

PROPELLER NOISE FROM A LIGHT AIRCRAFT FOR LOW-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPEED OF SOUND IN A MARINE SEDIMENT

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 445-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. BUCKINGHAM ◽  
ERIC M. GIDDENS ◽  
FERNANDO SIMONET ◽  
THOMAS R. HAHN
Keyword(s):  
Water Column ◽  
Speed Of Sound ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Difference Frequency ◽  
S Wave ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
La Jolla

The sound from a light aircraft in flight is generated primarily by the propeller, which produces a sequence of harmonics in the frequency band between about 80 Hz and 1 kHz. Such an airborne sound source has potential in underwater acoustics applications, including inversion procedures for determining the wave properties of marine sediments. A series of experiments has recently been performed off the coast of La Jolla, California, in which a light aircraft was flown over a sensor station located in a shallow (approximately 15 m deep) ocean channel. The sound from the aircraft was monitored with a microphone above the sea surface, a vertical array of eight hydrophones in the water column, and two sensors, a hydrophone and a bender intended for detecting shear waves, buried 75 cm deep in the very-fine-sand sediment. The propeller harmonics were detected on all the sensors, although the s-wave was masked by the p-wave on the buried bender. Significant Doppler shifts of the order of 17%, were observed on the microphone as the aircraft approached and departed from the sensor station. Doppler shifting was also evident in the hydrophone data from the water column and the sediment, but to a lesser extent than in the atmosphere. The magnitude of the Doppler shift depends on the local speed of sound in the medium in which the sensor is located. A technique is described in which the Doppler difference frequency between aircraft approach and departure is used to determine the speed of sound at low-frequencies (80 Hz to 1 kHz) in each of the three environments, the atmosphere, the ocean and the sediment. Several experimental results are presented, including the speed of sound in the very fine sand sediment at a nominal frequency of 600 Hz, which was found from the Doppler difference frequency of the seventh propeller harmonic to be 1617 m/s.

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