The deep scattering layer, sometimes referred to as the sound scattering layer, is a layer in the ocean consisting of a variety of marine animals. It was...

estimate mesopelagic fish abundance is by echosounding to locate the 'deep scattering layer' through the backscatter received from these acoustic sounders....

Lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the deep scattering layer of the world's oceans. Sonar reflects off the millions of lanternfish...

the impression of a "false ocean bottom"; this is the so-called deep scattering layer that so perplexed early oceanographers (see below). Great variability...

Lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the deep scattering layer of the world's oceans. Bigeye tuna are an epipelagic/mesopelagic...

The layer is deeper when the moon is out, and may move higher when the sky is dark. This phenomenon has come to be known as the deep scattering layer. Most...

connection between light scattering and acoustic scattering in the 1870s. Near the end of the 19th century, the scattering of cathode rays (electron...

false bottom can also refer to the deep scattering layer in the ocean, a phenomenon where a layer of marine organisms deep in the ocean can be mistaken by...

Larry; Jakobsson, Martin; Gårdfeldt, Katarina (2021-06-01). "A deep scattering layer under the North Pole pack ice" (PDF). Progress in Oceanography....

channel (short for sound fixing and ranging channel), or deep sound channel (DSC), is a horizontal layer of water in the ocean at which depth the speed of sound...

advantages, including the ability to identify a vegetation layer or a layer of soft mud on top of a layer of rock. Most hydrographic operations use a 200 kHz...

the most common method is deep-drop fishing, since swordfish spend most daylight hours very deep, in the deep scattering layer. The boat is allowed to drift...

Saline water: Permanent: (A) Permanent shallow marine waters: Less than 6m deep at low tide; including sea bays and straits (B) Marine subtidal aquatic beds:...

tactics, including daytime bait ball herding and nightime feeding in deep scattering layers. Mating is polygynandrous, and several males will chase after a...

(or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton to perform...

encountered bioluminescent organisms may be the dinoflagellates in the surface layers of the sea, which are responsible for the sparkling luminescence sometimes...

Chemistry and General Biology (1942, 1970); for explaining the deep scattering layer (DSL) as a result of what is now called the diel vertical migration;...

required. Surveys, stock assessment, management Ecology Behavior Deep scattering layer Simmonds J. & MacLennan D. (2005). Fisheries Acoustics: Theory and...

temperature of different lake layers. The less turbid the water, the more light is able to penetrate, and thus heat is conveyed deeper in the water. Heating declines...

intertidal systems, salt marshes, coral reefs, kelp forests and lagoons. In the deep water, hydrothermal vents may occur where chemosynthetic sulfur bacteria...

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cps Sound in Deep Water. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 36, 1596 (1964) J. R. Marshall and R. P. Chapman, Reverberation from a Deep Scattering Layer Measured with...

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AmericanHeritage.com Barham EG (May 1963). "Siphonophores and the Deep Scattering Layer". Science. 140 (3568): 826–828. Bibcode:1963Sci...140..826B. doi:10...

a water wave's passage causes significant water motion. At water depths deeper than the wave base, bottom sediments and the seafloor are no longer stirred...

75%) lies between 0° and 5°C, mostly in the deep ocean, where sunlight does not penetrate. The surface layers, however, experience far greater variability...

sediment layers near the mouth of the Mississippi River indicate four hypoxic events before the advent of synthetic fertilizer. In these sediment layers, anoxia-tolerant...

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General Deep scattering layer Diel vertical migration f-ratio Iron fertilization Large marine ecosystem Marine biology Marine chemistry Marine food web...

long range vertical migration makes them key contributors to the deep scattering layer. These organisms are frequently found in warm or temperate waters...