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2
P
(Pa)
0
-2
0
1
2
T (s)
3
4
Figure 3.1 Hydrophone time series bandpass-filtered in the range 500 Hz to 10 kHz. Vertical scale
is pressure in Pa, horizontal scale is time in sec. Figure is reproduced from Melville et al. ( 1992 )by
permission of Ken Melville
Figure 3.2 Video image of the breaker that occurred near t = 1 s of the one-minute record shown in
Figures 3.4 a,c and 3.5 . Figure is reproduced from Babanin et al. ( 2001 ) by permission of American
Geophysical Union
noise in the field which make the determination of both duration and energy of the breaking
acoustic impact unfeasible (see also Babanin et al. , 2007b and Section 8.3 ).
To demonstrate this, in Figures 3.2 , 3.3 and 3.4 breakers, detected by repeated viewing of
video records, and synchronised wave records are shown. The data were collected during
the Lake George field experiment ( Babanin et al. , 2001 ; Young et al. , 2005 ). The first and
last breakers of a one-minute segment of record 4 of Table 5.2 (i.e. those occurring in
t
55 s) are shown in the captured video images seen in Figures 3.2 and 3.3 ,
respectively. It is clear that these are cases where the crest of a breaking wave is passing
through the wave array and over the bottom-mounted hydrophone underneath the array.
=
1 s and t
=
 
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