Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals (2003)
Chapter: Appendix C: Examples of Underwater Acoustic Noise Models
Appendix C
Examples of Underwater Acoustics Noise Models
NAVY MODELS OF UNDERWATER NOISE
Ambient Noise
Ambient Noise Directionality System (ANDES; Renner, 1986a, b, 1988)
Ambient Noise Model (AMBENT; Robinson and McConnell, 1983)
Noise Model (CNOIS; Estalote, 1984; Osborne, 1979)
Directional Ambient Noise (DANES; Lukas et al., 1980)
Directional Underwater Noise Estimation System (DUNES; Bannister et al., 1989)
Fast Ambient Noise Model (FANM; Cavanagh, 1974a, b; Lasky and Colilla, 1974)
Normal Mode Ambient Noise (Kuperman and Ingenito, 1980)
Research Ambient Noise Directionality Model (Wagstaff, 1973; Hamson and Wagstaff, 1983; Schreiner, 1990; Breeding, 1993)
CASS/GRAB (Weinberg and Keenan, 1996; Weinberg et al., 2001)
Dynamic Ambient Noise Prediction System (DAPS)
BEAM NOISE STATISTICS
Analytic
BBN Shipping Noise (BBN Technologies Noise, Inc.; Mahler et al., 1975; Moll et al., 1977, 1979)
Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL; Goldman, 1974)
USI Array Noise (Jeannette et al., 1978)
Sonobuoy Noise (Shankey and McCabe, 1976)
Simulation
Beam Program Library (BEAMPL; Etter et al., 1984)
Discreet Shipping Beam Noise Model (DSBN; Cavanagh, 1978)
Narrow Beam Towed Array Model (NABTAM; Etter et al., 1984)
Data compiled from P.C. Etter, 1996, Table 7.1.
