Sonic Boom Links

• Virginia Tech Gallery of Fluid Dynamics (supersonic flow and shock waves)

• FAA Noise Division
  • Civil Supersonic Aircraft Technical Workshop Presentations - November 13, 2003

• NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

• Los Angeles Air Force Base Sonic Boom Propagation Studies

• National Marine Fisheries Service

• Space Shuttles and Sonic Booms

• SR-71 Sonic Boom Recordings

• Sea Launch - A possible impact on marine mammals?
  • Historical Description
  • News Release

• NOAA/PMEL VENTS Program, Ocean Acoustic Monitoring -
  Monitoring of Sea Mammals using the U.S. Navy's SOund SUrveillance System SOSUS

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• Some Sonic Boom Abstracts

• USAF single event sonic boom prediction model: PCBOOM.
• Sonic boom/animal stress project report on elk, antelope, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.
• On simulation of sonic-boom propagation with realistic modeling of the atmospheric turbulence.
• Current strategies in sonic-boom research.
• Studies of sonic booms with seismic networks.
• Effects of sonic booms on animals: Past history and future directions.
• The theoretical and computational basis of focused sonic booms.
• Behavioral and hearing responses of pinnipeds to rocket launch noise and sonic boom.
• Sonic-boom noise penetration into the ocean: 1995 update.
• Sonic boom from the Titan IV space launch vehicle launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
• Sonic boom propagation in a stratified atmosphere