{"id":45134,"date":"2026-07-08T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45134"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:48:29","slug":"word-of-the-day-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/08\/word-of-the-day-1130\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microbarom<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0acoustics<\/a>,\u00a0microbaroms<\/b>, also known as the “voice of the sea<\/b>“,\u00a0are a class of\u00a0atmospheric<\/a>\u00a0infrasonic<\/a>\u00a0waves<\/a>\u00a0generated in marine\u00a0storms<\/a>\u00a0by a\u00a0non-linear<\/a>\u00a0interaction of\u00a0ocean surface waves<\/a>\u00a0with the atmosphere.\u00a0They typically have\u00a0narrow-band<\/a>, nearly\u00a0sinusoidal<\/a>\u00a0waveforms<\/a>\u00a0with amplitudes up to a few\u00a0microbars<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0wave periods<\/a>\u00a0near 5 seconds (0.2\u00a0hertz<\/a>).\u00a0Due to low atmospheric\u00a0absorption<\/a>\u00a0at these low\u00a0frequencies<\/a>, microbaroms can\u00a0propagate<\/a>\u00a0thousands of kilometers in the atmosphere, and can be readily detected by widely separated instruments on the Earth’s surface. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “The Sounds of the Earth are all around us<\/em><\/a>.” Dana Milbank and Hailey Haymond, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

The infrasound coming from the ocean is called a \u201cmicrobarom.\u201d The interaction of wind and surface waves create something reminiscent of a background heartbeat. Sometimes it sounds like ripples of thunder or the echoes of an explosion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microbarom: In\u00a0acoustics,\u00a0microbaroms, also known as the “voice of the sea“,\u00a0are a class of\u00a0atmospheric\u00a0infrasonic\u00a0waves\u00a0generated in marine\u00a0storms\u00a0by a\u00a0non-linear\u00a0interaction of\u00a0ocean surface waves\u00a0with the atmosphere.\u00a0They typically have\u00a0narrow-band, nearly\u00a0sinusoidal\u00a0waveforms\u00a0with amplitudes up to a few\u00a0microbars,\u00a0and\u00a0wave periods\u00a0near 5 seconds (0.2\u00a0hertz).\u00a0Due to low atmospheric\u00a0absorption\u00a0at these low\u00a0frequencies, microbaroms can\u00a0propagate\u00a0thousands of kilometers in the atmosphere, and can be readily detected \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45135,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134\/revisions\/45135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}