Passive acoustic monitoring of the deep ocean using ambient noise

• Main Author: Woolfe, Katherine F.
• Other Authors: Sabra, Karim G., Degertekin, F. Levent, Di Lorenzo, Emanuele, Meaud, Julien, Kuperman, William, Mechanical Engineering
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
• Subjects: Acoustic; Oceanography; Active Sound; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53910

In the ocean, changes in the speed of sound can be related to changes in water temperature. By leveraging this relationship, acoustic methods – namely acoustic tomography- have been used to monitor temperature changes in the deep ocean for the purposes of providing inputs to climate change models. T...