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ensure accuracy. be developed and verified. The conventional
approach that utilizes an average pressure spectrum budget is
limited in its application to the marine mammal problem. A more
comprehensive approach that encompasses contributions of both
transient events and continuous sources to ocean noise should be
pursued. Many of this committee’s recommendations, particularly
those concerning information on distribution and source
signatures of man-made sources, must be addressed in order to
have the capability to develop a marine-mammal-relevant global
ocean noise model. In addition, since model validation is a
critical part of the model development process, the committee’s
recommendations pertaining to the collection of high quality,
well-documented ocean noise data sets must be pursued in tandem.
A program should be instituted