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In this chapter, we address the modeling of ambient noise as an application of the concepts and methods discussed in the previous chapters. Ambient noise in the ocean impacts underwater acoustics in two ways: It is the resident acoustic field in the ocean and hence also a diagnostic of the ocean environment. It is the interference with respect to detecting or measuring signals.
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Jensen, F.B., Kuperman, W.A., Porter, M.B., Schmidt, H. (2011). Ambient Noise. In: Computational Ocean Acoustics. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8678-8_9
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