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

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Sebastian Menze, Ilse van Opzeeland, Olaf Boebel, Daniel P. Zitterbart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: ocean ambient sound; ocean ambient noise; sea ice; southern ocean; antarctic marine mammals; passive acoustic monitoring; 1005; 140; 60; 1; Earth Science; Research Article; geo; envir; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Austral; Greenwich; Hydrurga; Antarc*; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Fin whale; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seals; minke whale; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2490945; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160370; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160370; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsos.160370; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.160370; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280544; http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5319310; https://core.ac.uk/display/154718091; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017RSOS.460370M/abstract; https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2490945; https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/8817; https://epic.awi.de/42630/; https://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/1/160370; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2575610820

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...