Sounds in the Sea: From Ocean Acoustics to Acoustical Oceanography
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 3/1/2018
EAN 9781108448147, ISBN10: 1108448143
Paperback, 678 pages, 24.9 x 17 x 3.6 cm
Language: English
Underwater acousticians and acoustical oceanographers use sound as the premier tool to determine the detailed characteristics of physical and biological bodies and processes at sea. Sounds in the Sea is a comprehensive and accessible textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography. The first nine chapters provide the basic tools of ocean acoustics. The following fifteen chapters are written by many of the world's most successful ocean researchers. These chapters describe modern developments, and are divided into four sections: Studies of the Near Surface Ocean; Bioacoustical Studies; Studies of Ocean Dynamics; and Studies of the Ocean Bottom. This is an invaluable textbook for any course in ocean acoustics for the physical and biological ocean sciences, and engineering. It will also serve as a reference for researchers and professionals in ocean acoustics, and an excellent introduction to the topic for scientists from related fields.
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Preface
Part I. Fundamentals Herman Medwin
1. Sound propagation in a simplified sea
2. Transmission and attenuation along sound paths
3. Sound sources and receivers
4. Intense sounds
non-linear phenomena
5. Interpreting ocean sounds
6. Sound radiated or scattered by prototype marine bodies and bubbles
7. Ocean bio-acoustics
8. Ocean waveguides, rough surfaces, barriers, escarpments, and seamounts
9. Scatter and transmission at ocean surfaces
Part II. Studies of the Near Surface Ocean
10. Acoustical studies of the upper ocean boundary layer David M. Farmer
11. Using underwater sound to measure raindrop size distribution Jeffrey A. Nystuen
Part III. Bio-Acoustical Studies
12. Active acoustical assessment of plankton and micronekton D. Vance Holliday and Timothy K. Stanton
13. Models, measures, and visualizations of fish backscatter John K. Horne and Josef M. Jech
14. Bioacoustic absorption spectroscopy
a new approach to monitoring the number and lengths of fish in the ocean Orest Diachok
15. Passive acoustics as a key to the study of marine animals Douglas H. Cato, Michael J. Noad and Rob McCauley
16. The acoustical causes of collisions between marine mammals and vessels Edmund R. Gerstein and Joseph E. Blue
17. Whale monitoring Ching-Sang Chiu and Christopher W. Miller
Part IV. Studies of Ocean Dynamics
18. Ocean acoustic tomography Robert Spindel
19. Acoustic time reversal in the ocean David R. Dowling and Heechun Song
20. Studies of turbulent processes using Doppler and acoustic scintillation techniques Daniela Di Iorio and Anne Gargett
21. Very high frequency coastal acoustics T. G. Leighton and Gary J. Heald
Part V. Studies of the Ocean Bottom
22. Acoustical imaging of deep ocean hydrothermal flows David Palmer and Peter Rona
23. Remotely imaging underwater mountain ranges in minutes Nicholas Makris
24. Acoustic remote sensing of the sea bed using propeller noise from a light aircraft Michael Buckingham.