This volume develops the theory of ocean ambient noise mechanisms and measurements, and also describes general noise characteristics and computational methods. The book will be of the greatest interest to graduate students and active researchers working in fields related to ambient noise in the ocean.

The book concisely summarizes the vast ambient noise literature using theory combined with key representative results. This book provides a series of appendices giving in-depth mathematical treatments.

Contents
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Air-Sea Boundary Interaction Zone
3 Fundamental Mechanisms
4 The Measurement of Oceanic Ambient Noise
5 Numerical Modeling of Ambient Noise
6 Research Issues and Applications of Oceanic Noise
Appendix A Solutions to the Inhomogeneous Wave Equation
Appendix B Standard Definitions
Appendix C A Review of the Sonic Properties of Bubbly Liquids
Appendix D Radiation and Scattering from Compact Bubble Clouds
Appendix E The Radiation from a Pulsating Sphere
Appendix F Thermal Noise
Appendix G The Lloyd Mirror
Appendix H Sounds from Drop Impacts
Appendix I Source Levels for Wind-Driven Noise
Appendix J Modal Noise Cross-Correlation Matrix
Nomenclature
Bibliography
Index

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