What does long-term monitoring of the ocean soundscape tell us?

• Main Author: Royer, Jean-Yves
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (LGO), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Las Palmas; baleen whales
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03874626

International audience Mooring arrays of few hydrophones is an effective way for monitoring the ocean soundscape and its sources: undersea earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, marine mammals, iceberg cracks, sea-state, ship noise, etc. This is due to the exceptional acoustic properties of the ocean a...