Whale Call Data for the North Pacific November 1995 through July 1999 Occurrence of Calling Whales and Source Locations from SOSUS and Other Acoustic Systems

• Main Authors: Watkins, William A., George, Joseph E., Daher, Mary Ann, Mullin, Kristina, Martin, Darel L.
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Biology; *ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; *NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; *WHALES; DATA PROCESSING; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; WINTER; HYDROPHONES; DEEP WATER; OFFSHORE; AUDIO TONES; BLUE WHALES; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; FIN WHALES; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; HUMPBACK WHALES; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; *SOSUS(SOUND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM); *CALLING WHALES; REPETITIVE PULSE SEQUENCES; Midwinter; Pacific; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Blue whale; Fin whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA375142; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA375142

Calls of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus), and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were identified in the data from U.S. Navy Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) and other hydrophone arrays. These data on calling whales from November 1995 through July 1999 h...