Sounds generated by ice cracking

Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut

Tags: physical sciences, ice break-up, sonar survey

Principal Investigator: Farmer, David (1)
Licence Number: 8036
Organization: Institute of Ocean Sciences (Dept. Fish. Oceans, Canada)
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Issued: Jan 01, 1988
Project Team: Robert A. Lake; Ron Teichrob; Y. Xie

Objective(s): To measure sounds generated by ice cracks using seven hydrophones and an ice surface instrument package; to relate these sounds to the source mechanism; to model the ice cracking so as to recover bulk ice parameters from the observed signal