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Cryogenic (Ice) sounds

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

The program's catalogue of ice sounds: calving, iceberg harmonic tremor, the Bloop, and Slow Down, described as an iceberg grounding whose sound descends in frequency over about seven minutes as the berg slows to a stop. The Slow Down audio file is named noise97139.wav.

MYS0D9C766T24XP · mystery · click to copyMBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsWeb pageCopy of The Slow Down recordingChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

The only PMEL description of Slow Down and the file that dates it.

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Cite it

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