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Acoustics Monitoring Program: Upsweep

Acoustics Program NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, n.d.. NOAA PMEL Acoustics Program (pmel.noaa.gov).

Describes the Upsweep: present when PMEL began recording SOSUS in August 1991; a long train of narrowband upsweeping sounds of several seconds each; loud enough to be heard across the Pacific; seasonal, peaking in spring and autumn; roughly located at 54°S 140°W near inferred volcanic seismicity; origin unresolved; declining in level since 1991 but still detected on the equatorial arrays.

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The primary record of the one sound PMEL still lists as unresolved.

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NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, A. P. (n.d.). Acoustics Monitoring Program: Upsweep. NOAA PMEL Acoustics Program (pmel.noaa.gov). https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/sounds/upsweep.html
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