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Using ADCP Background Sound Levels to Estimate Wind Speed

2001· article· en· W2173726747 on OpenAlexaff
Len Zedel

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicUnderwater Acoustics Research
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWind speedEnvironmental scienceSound (geography)AcousticsAttenuationDoppler effectSpeed of soundSound speed gradientAmbient noise levelCalibrationWind profilerRelative windWind directionGeologyMeteorologySIGNAL (programming language)Noise (video)Sound intensityComputer sciencePhysicsRadarAerodynamics

Abstract

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It is well known that ambient sound is generated by wind through the process of wave breaking and bubble injection. The resulting sound levels are highly correlated with wind speed and, even though the physical process is not fully understood, sound levels can be used to estimate wind speeds with accuracies comparable to other marine wind measurement techniques. It has been noted by several researchers that background sound levels in acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) systems are correlated to wind speeds; however, conventional wisdom would suggest that this signal should be dominated by thermal noise. In this report, background sound levels in 75-, 150-, and 300-kHz ADCP systems have been investigated. Techniques required to convert raw data into absolute sound levels and to adjust these values to estimate representative surface sound levels are presented. Only the background sound levels in the 150-kHz ADCP retain a signal from the surface-generated ambient sound. For these systems, deployment-independent wind speed estimates can be made with an accuracy of 1.5 ± 1.5 m s−1 for wind speeds up to 15 m s−1; accuracies of −0.1 ± 1.4 m s−1 can be achieved when using deployment-specific calibration constants. At higher wind speeds, significant signal attenuation occurs due to the presence of subsurface bubbles; a correction for this attenuation is applied. Wind speeds determined from background sound levels can be combined with the ability of upward-looking ADCPs to extract wind direction to provide wind vector data. There is also a wind speed–dependent signal in the near-surface backscatter levels of the 300-kHz systems. The 300-kHz signal is not associated with background sound levels and is most likely caused by near-surface backscatter.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.347
Threshold uncertainty score0.894

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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