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Depth-profiling ambient noise in the deep ocean.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20330197     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Deep Sound is an untethered instrument platform designed to free-fall from the sea surface to a preassigned depth, at which point a burn wire releases a weight, allowing the system to return to the surface under buoyancy. The descent and ascent rate is 0.6 ms. A Vitrovex glass sphere houses lithium-ion batteries and a suite of microprocessor-controlled electronics for data acquisition, data storage, power management, and system control. Outside the sphere, several hydrophones are arranged in vertical and horizontal configurations, a CTD returns environmental data, and motion sensors monitor pitch, roll, and yaw. Data may be downloaded, and the batteries may be recharged, via throughputs in the sphere. The hydrophones, with a bandwidth of 30 kHz, are rated to a depth exceeding 11 km, and the sphere itself has a depth-rating of 9 km. The system made three descents in the Philippine Sea in May 2009, to depths of 5100, 5500 and 6000 m; and in November 2009, two descents were made in the Mariana Trench to a depth of 9000 m. On all these deployments, ambient-noise time-series were recorded continuously, yielding the power spectrum and vertical coherence of the noise as functions of depth. [Research supported by ONR.].
Authors:
David R Barclay; Fernando Simonet; Michael J Buckingham
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America     Volume:  127     ISSN:  1520-8524     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.     Publication Date:  2010 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-03-24     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7503051     Medline TA:  J Acoust Soc Am     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1783     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Scripps Inst. of Oceanogr., UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0238, mbuckingham@.ucsd.edu.
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