Climate change is altering environmental conditions that govern acoustic propagation across oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial systems, while also creating new opportunities for acoustic sensing of these changes. This joint Special Issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and JASA Express Letters highlights recent advances at the intersection of acoustics and climate science, including studies of ocean acoustic tomography, marine and terrestrial soundscapes, coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows, and the impacts of anthropogenic noise. Together, these contributions demonstrate how acoustic methods can provide unique insights into environmental variability, ecosystem response, and long-term climate processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
Ballard et al. (Mon,) studied this question.