Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1381-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1381-2019
Research article
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25 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 25 Apr 2019

Attenuation of sound in glacier ice from 2 to 35 kHz

Alexander Meyer, Dmitry Eliseev, Dirk Heinen, Peter Linder, Franziska Scholz, Lars Steffen Weinstock, Christopher Wiebusch, and Simon Zierke

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Mar 2019) by Olaf Eisen
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Short summary
The acoustic damping in natural glaciers is a largely unexplored physical property that has relevance for various applications particularly for the exploration of glaciers with probes. We present measurements of the attenuation of sound in situ on the Italian glacier Langenferner. The tested frequency ranges from 2 to 35 kHz. The attenuation length ranges between 13 m for low frequencies and 5 m for high frequencies.