Prosperetti, AndreaLu, N.Q.2020-03-102020-03-101988-09Copyright 1988 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Recommended citation: Prosperetti, Andrea, and Nan Q. Lu. "Cavitation and bubble bursting as sources of oceanic ambient noise." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84, no. 3 (1988): 1037-1041. DOI: 10.1121/1.396739 URL: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.396739 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6072Cavitationlike bubble collapses and the bursting of floating bubbles have been proposed in the literature as sources of oceanic ambient noise at kilohertz frequencies. The first process is shown to be physically impossible in the oceanic environment. The noise produced by the second mechanism is estimated and shown to be too weak to be of any significance.en-USAcoustic noiseCavitation bubblesarticle