The effect of atmospheric sound absorption on signal bandwidth and energy and some consequences for bat echolocation
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 85 (3) , 1338-1347
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.397465
Abstract
The degradation of broadband pulses due to atmospheric absorption was examined as a potential explanation for flexible echolocation behavior. It was found that absorption can explain flexible echolocation behavior in FM/CF bats but not in CF/FM bats. The effects of absorption on target detection and the potential importance to bats of other atmospheric propagation effects are examined and discussed.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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