TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-range detection of hydroacoustic signals from large icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
AU - Talandier, Jacques
AU - Hyvernaud, Olivier
AU - Okal, Emile A.
AU - Piserchia, Pierre Franck
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Rick Aster for providing the Erebus network data, Bernard Chouet, Michel Bouchon and Michel Vallon for discussion, and Jackie Caplan-Aucherbach and another reviewer for helpful comments. Matthew Lazzara kindly provided a customized version of Fig. 7 . Maps were drawn using the GMT software of Wessel and Smith [38] . This research was supported at Northwestern University by the Department of Defense under Contract DTRA01-C-0065.
PY - 2002/10/15
Y1 - 2002/10/15
N2 - Hydroacoustic signals detected in late 2000 by seismic stations in Polynesia are shown to originate from huge icebergs which at the time were drifting in the Ross Sea after calving off the Ross Ice Shelf. The signals present a broad variety of spectral characteristics, most of them featuring prominent eigenfrequencies in the 4-7 Hz range, often complemented by overtones. Most epicenters, obtained by combining observations of distant hydroacoustic and regional seismic records, follow the spatio temporal evolution of the drift of iceberg B-15B. Most of the signals are generated during a 36-day time window when it is speculated that B-15B collided with smaller icebergs or was scraping the ocean floor on the shallow continental shelf. We speculate on the possible physical nature of the resonator generating the signals, which could correspond to an elastic mode of the iceberg, or to the oscillation of fluid-filled cracks in the ice.
AB - Hydroacoustic signals detected in late 2000 by seismic stations in Polynesia are shown to originate from huge icebergs which at the time were drifting in the Ross Sea after calving off the Ross Ice Shelf. The signals present a broad variety of spectral characteristics, most of them featuring prominent eigenfrequencies in the 4-7 Hz range, often complemented by overtones. Most epicenters, obtained by combining observations of distant hydroacoustic and regional seismic records, follow the spatio temporal evolution of the drift of iceberg B-15B. Most of the signals are generated during a 36-day time window when it is speculated that B-15B collided with smaller icebergs or was scraping the ocean floor on the shallow continental shelf. We speculate on the possible physical nature of the resonator generating the signals, which could correspond to an elastic mode of the iceberg, or to the oscillation of fluid-filled cracks in the ice.
KW - Acoustical methods
KW - Icebergs
KW - Seismic waves
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U2 - 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00867-1
DO - 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00867-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037107999
SN - 0012-821X
VL - 203
SP - 519
EP - 534
JO - Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters
JF - Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters
IS - 1
ER -