The influence of sea ice, wind speed and marine mammals on Southern Ocean ambient sound

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Menze, Sebastian, Zitterbart, Daniel P., van Opzeeland, Ilse, Boebel, Olaf
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Earth Science; Antarctic; Austral; Greenwich; Hydrurga; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Fin whale; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seals; minke whale; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319310/; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160370

This paper describes the natural variability of ambient sound in the Southern Ocean, an acoustically pristine marine mammal habitat. Over a 3-year period, two autonomous recorders were moored along the Greenwich meridian to collect underwater passive acoustic data. Ambient sound levels were strongly...