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Assessing underwater noise levels during pile-driving at an offshore wind farm and its potential effects on marine mammals

2010
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Bailey, H., Senior, B., Simmons, D., Rusin, J., Picken, G. and Thompson, P. M

Marine renewable developments have raised concerns over impacts of underwater noise on marine species, particularly from pile-driving for wind turbines. Environmental assessments typically use generic sound...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Bottlenose dolphins, Marine mammals, Marine protected area, Noise impacts, Piling, Renewable energy, Wind farm

Ambient noise estimation in territorial waters using AIS data

2019
Pay-walled Article

Applied Acoustics

Roul, Soubhagya, Kumar C. R. S., and Das Arnab

Ambient noise in ocean is a complex combination of numerous types of natural and anthropogenic noise. The noise is dominant in all frequencies from 1 Hz...
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Keywords: AIS, Ambient noise, Noise models, RANDI, Shallow ocean, Spatial noise map

Model Benchmarking Results for Ship Noise in Shallow Water

2019
Open Access Conference

UACE 2019, Crete

Bas Binnerts, Christ de Jong, Ilkka Karasalo, Martin Östberg, Thomas Folegot, Dominique Clorennec, Michael A. Ainslie, Graham Warnerd, Lian Wang

A key task in the JOMOPANS project is to select verified and validated modelling methods applicable for generating maps of ambient noise in the North Sea,...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Benchmarking scenarios, JOMOPANS project, Model verification, Propagation modelling, Underwater acoustics

D3.6 Detailed report on ambient noise measurements in Crete, Malta and  Cabrera and the analysis of the measured data

2018
Open Access Report

QUIETMED – Joint programme on noise (D11) for the implementation of the Second Cycle of the MSFD in the Mediterranean Sea

Vella, A., Vella, J., Millares, R., Lara, G., Taroudakis, M., Piperakis, G., Skarsoulis, E. and Papadakis, P.

The QUIETMED project is running a number of pilot runs for monitoring and consequently establishing trends in acoustic noise present in the Mediterranean Sea according to...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Measurement

Report of the Technical Subgroup on Underwater Noise and other forms of energy

2012
Open Access Report

European Marine Strategy Framework Directive Good Environmental Status (MSFD-GES)

Van der Graaf, A. J., Ainslie ,M., André, M., Brensing, K., Dalen, J., Dekeling, R. P. A., Robinson, S., Tasker, M., Thomsen, F. and Werner, S.

There are many kinds of anthropogenic energy that human activities introduce into the marine environment including sound, light and other electromagnetic fields, heat and radioactive energy....
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Impulsive noise, Monitoring

Research Ambient Noise Directionality (RANDI) 3.1 Physics description.

1996
Open Access Report

Naval Research Laboratory

Breeding, J. E., Jr., Pflug, L. A., Bradley, M., Walrod, M. H., McBride, W.

The purpose of this report is to present a description of the physics underlying the Research Ambient Noise Directionality noise model version 3.1, hereafter referred to...
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Keywords: Acoustical noise levels, Ambient noise, Deep water, Shallow water

Anthropogenic and natural sources of ambient noise in the ocean.

2009
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecology Progress Series

Hildebrand, J.

Ocean ambient noise results from both anthropogenic and natural sources. Different noise sources are dominant in each of 3 frequency bands: low (10 to 500 Hz),...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Anthropogenic, Frequency bands, Natural sources

Reciprocal modelling between the underwater ambient noise and the coastal maritime traffic density in the Calvi bay

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Magnier, C. and Gervaise, C.

Maritime traffic is the main contributor to anthropogenic underwater noise; its increase changes the acoustic landscape. To follow these evolutions, maps of ambient noise are created...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Marine traffic