Beam forming on bottom-interacting tow-ship noise

Ship noise received on a horizontal array towed behind the ship is shown to be useful as a potentially diagnostic tool for estimating local acoustic bottom properties. In numerical simulations, tow-ship noise which bounces off the bottom is processed on a beamformer that shows the arrival angles; the beamformer output is readily interpreted by relating it to the Green's function of the acoustic wave equation. Simple signal processing is shown to be sufficient to extract the propagation angles of the "trapped" (i.e., propagating) modes of the acoustic waveguide. By relating the trapped modes to a basic geophysical model of the bottom, one can predict acoustic-propagation conditions for a particular bottom-interacting ocean acoustic environment.     

Adaptive noise canceling applied to Sea Beam sidelobe interferencerejection

An adaptive noise cancelling (ANC) technique involving a joint-process deterministic least-squares lattice filter was applied to the Sea Beam bathymetric survey system data. The filtering scheme used in Sea Beam adversely affects the underlying acoustic return and may also lead to bathymetric artifacts. The authors investigate a possible remedy for this sidelobe interference problem offered by ANC coupled with signal preservation, provided both amplitude and phase information. The joint-process deterministic least-squares lattice is the adaptive filter of choice because of its superior transit response in the presence of power discontinuities. A REVGEN (reverberation generator) simulation (R.P. Goddard, 1985) of the Sea Beam system provided support for the proposed filtering technique. A complex data acquisition system was designed and built to record the in-phase and quadrature component of Sea Beam returns. Initial ANC processing of these recorded Sea Beam data provided satisfactory sidelobe interference cancellation with no noticeable degradation of the actual bottom returns     

Limitations on the overlap-correlator method imposed by noise andsignal characteristics

Limitations on the performance of the overlap-correlator method of forming a passive synthetic aperture are derived. The technique uses the overlap of the array in sequential positions to estimate a series of phase correction factors that compensate for the motion of the array over time. It is of primary interest to optimize this overlap with respect to the effects of random noise. By minimizing the variance of the estimates of the set of phase correction factors, it is found that the optimal overlap is one-half the length of the physical array. Using this optimal overlap, the bounds on the usable spatial response are then determined as a function of signal-to-noise ratio and the number of hydrophones in the physical array. The ability of the overlap-correlator algorithm to synthesize a coherent aperture is investigated for the case of multiple sources in the absence of noise     

近海风电场水下打桩辐射噪声特性测量分析

对滨海海上风电场一次完整的打桩过程不同水深处环境噪声进行监测和分析。结果表明:打桩过程水下辐射噪声脉冲信号,在所研究海域附近环境噪声级由原来打桩前的130 d B左右瞬间增加约20~50 d B,20~20 000 Hz频段,打桩噪声谱级高于工程前该海域背景环境噪声谱级约30~65 d B,100~1 000 Hz频率打桩辐射噪声谱级出现多个峰值,不同水深谱级最高峰值频率为200 Hz。根据打桩水下辐射噪声监测结果和浅海Marsh和Schulkin半经验公式,计算打桩辐射噪声声源级(距声源中心1 m处)为210.2 d B(参考声压1μPa)。为水下打桩辐射噪声的深入研究提供了基础数据,分析结果可供海洋环境和海洋生物保护研究参考。     

The characteristics of signal versus noise sst variability in the north pacific and the tropical pacific ocean

Total sea surface temperature (SST) in a coupled GCM is diagnosed by separating the variability into signal variance and noise variance. The signal and the noise is calculated from multi-decadal simulations from the COLA anomaly coupled GCM and the interactive ensemble model by assuming both simulations have a similar signal variance. The interactive ensemble model is a new coupling strategy that is designed to increase signal to noise ratio by using an ensemble of atmospheric realizations coupled to a single ocean model. The procedure for separating the signal and the noise variability presented here does not rely on any ad hoc temporal or spatial filter. Based on these simulations, we find that the signal versus the noise of SST variability in the North Pacific is significantly different from that in the equatorial Pacific. The noise SST variability explains the majority of the total variability in the North Pacific, whereas the signal dominates in the deep tropics. It is also found that the spatial characteristics of the signal and the noise are also distinct in the North Pacific and equatorial Pacific.     

船舶噪声对浅海海洋环境噪声空间相关的影响

通过对2001年亚洲海国际声学实验(ASIAEX)得到的海洋环境噪声数据进行处理,计算了噪声场空间相关系数、功率谱密度和垂直指向性,分别研究了受到远距离和近距离船舶辐射噪声影响的海洋环境噪声空间相关性.结果表明:船舶距离较远(10 km)时其辐射噪声会导致500 Hz以下的海洋环境噪声的空间相关性提高,而对500 Hz以上噪声的空间相关性没有影响;船舶距离较近(≤10 km)时,船舶辐射噪声会导致500 Hz以下的海洋环境噪声相关系数振荡变化,噪声空间相关性曲线在噪声信号声程差相差四分之一波长时出现第一个零点,对500 Hz以上的海洋环境噪声则会引起噪声能量升高,噪声的空间相关性也相对提高.基于现有理论,分别讨论了远距离船舶和近距离船舶产生的噪声场声学特性,对两种噪声场的海洋环境噪声空间相关性进行了合理的解释.     

钢梁和钢混凝土组合梁在温度载荷作用下的响应

梁体在火作用下的响应取决于许多因素,包括约束条件和梁体的性质.应用温度升高时钢材和混凝土的非线性应力-应变关系,基于能量守恒原理,建立有限差分平衡方程,在合理确定钢材和混凝土热工参数基础上,分别分析三面受火、一面受力的两端为固定铰支座钢梁和钢混凝土组合梁的响应,得到2种约束梁体在温度载荷作用下响应的异同点,为进一步研究火灾下钢梁和钢混凝土结构的力学性能和抗火极限提供参考.     

Deep-ocean vertical noise directionality

The structure of beam noise measured at the output of a vertical array in a range dependent ocean basin was investigated using the modified wide-angle parabolic equation (PE). Noise sources were distributed throughout the basin, and the field due to each noise source at an array located in the midbasin was calculated. The response of the array to the superposition of the noise sources was found by beamforming. An efficient and direct approach that superimposes the noise sources on the PE field as the field is marched toward the array was developed. Downslope calculations of the midbasin vertical directionality were made between 50 and 400 Hz with this technique. Use of a geoacoustic model shows that the bottom behaves as a low-pass filter     

Ship sources of ambient noise

The rapid increase in world shipping results in an increase in low-frequency ambient noise at an average rate of about 1/2 dB per year. During the past 10 years there has been a virtual revolution in the sizes and speeds of merchant ships, resulting in significant increases in the noise radiated by the average ship. This trend is continuing. In this paper, the trends in world merchant shipping will be presented, including important changes in propulsion plants as well as in numbers and sizes of ships. The need for radiated noise measurements of these new ship types will be stressed. Ambient noise is also dependent on the geographical distribution of shipping. The LRAPP-sponsored program to establish standard shipping distributions for the Northern Hemisphere will be discussed, and the reliability of current information will be assessed.     

Red noise and regime shifts

The analysis of interdecadal physical and biological variability is made challenging by the relative shortness of available time series. It has been suggested that rapid temporal changes of the most energetic empirical orthogonal function of North Pacific sea surface temperature (sometimes called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO) represents a “regime shift” between states with otherwise stable statistics. Using random independent time series generated to have the same frequency content as the PDO, we show that a composite analysis of climatic records recently used to identify regime shifts is likely to find them in Gaussian, red noise with stationary statistics. Detection of a shift by this procedure is not evidence of nonlinear processes leading to bi-stable behavior or any other meaningful regime shift.     

Depth dependence of ambient noise

Omnidirectional measurements of ambient noise versus depth in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic areas are presented. The shapes of the vertical ambient noise profiles spanning the water column at frequencies from 25 to 500 Hz are shown to be heavily influenced by passing ships. The qualitative features of average noise profiles measured by mid-water hydrophones can be explained with the aid of a straightforward model, and it is concluded that low-frequency omnidirectional ambient noise depth dependence is predictable. The sensitivity of the vertical noise profile to passing ships, coupled with noise predictability suggests that surveillance could be effected by a vertical string of hydrophones without coherent processing in areas of relatively light shipping.     

Recreational boat noise level evaluation

Recreational boats are constantly undergoing modifications and improvements in design, construction materials, and equipment. The boat builder mission is supply customers with a product with better quality, safety and onboard comfort. Onboard comfort should be evaluated along several points. Seakeeping is especially critical on long trips or operations in regions where harsh sea conditions occur. Over the years much attention has been given to boat behavior underway at sea. Recently onboard noise level has become a significant element of comfort and navigation safety. With high onboard noise a boater is unable to detect other boat whistles, horns and calls for help. This becomes a critical problem when sailing in fog and at night. Maintaining the internal noise level within limits is important. In order to address this noise problem, the paper presents a review of existing guidelines and the authors' proposal for Boat Noise Evaluation (BNE) procedure for recreational powerboats. This procedure has been used in a number of boat trials. The use of this procedure is discussed along with representative boat noise level results and a comparison with the acceptable values for passenger comfort and safety.     

Ambient noise data logger buoy

A buoy for measuring wind speed and the ambient noise sound pressure level from 10 to 1500 Hz with 1-Hz resolution is described. The measurement buoy was deployed in a remote fjord in southeastern Alaska from October to December, 1989. The results from the data collected show that, for a wind speed of 5 kn, the measured ambient noise level at 900 Hz lies well below the Knudsen curve for open-ocean, wind-generated noise. As the wind speed increases from 5 to 10 kn, the measured ambient noise level approaches the Knudsen curve, increasing at 4 dB/kn compared to 1 dB/kn for the Knudsen curve. Above 10 kn, the measured ambient noise level matches the Knudsen curve     

Stoneley waves,Lopez Island noise,and deep sea noise from 1 to 5 Hz

The Lopez Island OBS Intercomparison Experiment provided a data set of sufficient spatial density to allow study of the propagation of shot-generated Stoneley waves as well as ambient background noise. The Stoneley waves were observed propagating at velocities of 20 to 50 m s^-1, Phase velocities were determined by fitting peaks in the frequency wave number spectrum. Group velocities were calculated by narrowly filtering the data and determining the arrival time of the peak in the frequency packet. Particle displacement plots illustrate the surface wave character of these waves. The analysis of the ambient background noise failed to produce a clearly defined dispersion curve yet it did allow bounds to be placed on the phase velocities (20 to 50 m s^-1). The data were modeled using eleven layers overlying a half-space. The results indicated that the top 7 m of the sediment column at Lopez Island is best approximated by two zones. In the upper zone there is a fairly rapid change of shear velocity with depth. This zone overlies a region in which the shear velocity gradient is much lower. Deep ocean background noise recorded by University of Washington ocean bottom seismometers was also examined. Although insufficient data precluded any velocity analysis, definite similarities exist between these data and noise data observed at Lopez Island.Hawaii Institute of Geophysics Contribution No. 1174.     

Bubbles as sources of ambient noise

It has been shown that the main mechanism which produces the Knudsen region of the ambient noise spectrum is the free oscillations of bubbles. Some experimental results which seem to confirm these facts and to refute various alternative theories involving spray impacts and turbulent forcing of bubble oscillations are described. The results show that the mechanism which excites the bubbles is their formation at the surface; once a bubble has been formed and has radiated the excess energy resulting from its formation, it is more or less silent. It is possible for extremely violent conditions to re-excite bubbles by breaking them into smaller fractions, but it is not clear how important this process would be in the ocean. How the entrainment process imparts energy to the bubble is discussed     

Underwater noise emissions from bubble clouds

By means of an effective equation model for the propagation of pressure waves in a bubbly liquid, the normal modes of oscillation of regions of bubbly liquid in an otherwise pure liquid are calculated for some simple geometries. It is shown that the frequencies of oscillation of such bubble clouds can be much lower than those of the constituent bubbles in isolation and fall well within the range where substantial wind-dependent noise is observed in the ocean. A comparison with some experimental data strongly supports the theoretical results     

Acoustic vector-sensor correlations in ambient noise

Most array-processing methods require knowledge of the correlation structure of the noise. While such information may sometimes be obtained from measurements made when no sources are present, this may not always be possible. Furthermore, measurements made in-situ can hardly be used to analyze system performance before deployment. The development of models of the correlation structure under various environmental assumptions is therefore very important. In this paper, we obtain integral and closed form expressions for the auto- and cross-correlations between the components of an acoustic vector sensor (AVS) for a wideband-noise field, under the following assumptions concerning its spatial distribution: 1) azimuthal independence; 2) azimuthal independence and elevational symmetry; and 3) spherical isotropy. We also derive expressions for the cross-covariances between all components of two spatially displaced AVSs in a narrowband-noise field under the same assumptions. These results can be used to determine the noise-covariance matrix of an array of acoustic vector sensors in ambient noise. We apply them to a uniform linear AVS array to asses its beamforming capabilities and localization accuracy, via the Cramer-Rao bound, in isotropic and anisotropic noise     

现浇连续箱梁的施工工艺

滨州黄河公路大桥南引桥上部构造为单箱单室大悬臂连续现浇箱梁,跨径42m,2001年12月开工,经过17个月的艰苦施工,提前顺利竣工。对该项工程的施工经验做了总结。