Wind dependence of oceanic ambient noise measured at the Ieado Ocean Research Station

Abstract

Oceanic ambient noise was measured to understand the effect of wind speed on noiselevel at the Ieado Ocean Research Station during several months. The noise levels aregradually increasing with the increase of the wind speed, however the levels at the higher frequency region of 5 to 20 kHz are not increasing with the increase of the wind speed due to the snapping shrimp noise. And it was seemed that the snapping shrimp noise was stronger on calm sea than them on rough sea.