In 2009, as part of PhilSea09, the instrument platform known as Deep Sound was deployed in the Philippine Sea, descending under gravity to a depth of 6000 m, where it released a drop weight, allowing buoyancy to return it to the surface. On the descent and ascent, at a speed of 0.6 m/s, Deep Sound continuously recorded broadband ambient noise on two vertically aligned hydrophones separated by 0.5 m. For frequencies between 1 and 10 kHz, essentially all the noise was found to be downward traveling, exhibiting a depth-independent directional density function having the simple form cos θ, where θ ≤ 90° is the polar angle measured from the zenith. The spatial coherence and cross-spectral density of the noise show no change in character in the vicinity of the critical depth, consistent with a local, wind-driven surface-source distribution. The coherence function accurately matches that predicted by a simple model of deep-water, wind-generated noise, provided that the theoretical coherence is evaluated using the local sound speed. A straightforward inversion procedure is introduced for recovering the sound speed profile from the cross-correlation function of the noise, returning sound speeds with a root-mean-square error relative to an independently measured profile of 8.2 m/s.
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Depth dependence of wind-driven, broadband ambient noise in the Philippine Sea
David R. Barclay;
David R. Barclay
Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California
, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0238
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Michael J. Buckingham
Michael J. Buckingham
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Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California
, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0238
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, 62–71 (2013)
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April 12 2012
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November 06 2012
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David R. Barclay, Michael J. Buckingham; Depth dependence of wind-driven, broadband ambient noise in the Philippine Sea. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 January 2013; 133 (1): 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4768885
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