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Assessing the Underwater Ship Noise Levels in the North Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Assessing the Underwater Ship Noise Levels in the North Tyrrhenian Sea.

  • Rossi E Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, 1205, Switzerland. Eduardo.Rossi@unige.ch.
  • Licitra G Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region (ARPAT), Lucca, 55100, Italy. g.licitra@arpat.toscana.it.
  • Iacoponi A Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region (ARPAT), Lucca, 55100, Italy. andrea.iacoponi@arpat.toscana.it.
  • Taburni D Institute of Acoustics and Sensors "Bear Mario Corbino" (IDASC), Rome, 100-00133, Italy. daniele.taburni@gmail.com.
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  • 2015-11-28
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  • Advances in experimental medicine and biology. - 2016
Cetacean Sanctuary
Noise vessel
Ray tracing
Models, Theoretical
Noise
Oceans and Seas
Seawater
Ships
Sound Spectrography
English The purpose of this research was to assess the anthropic underwater noise caused by ships within the Cetacean Sanctuary, a wide area in the North Tyrrhenian Sea. Noise from low-frequency continuous sounds has been investigated within the 1/3-octave bands centered at 63 and 125 Hz. All the information about noise sources and sound attenuation have been organized in a database; a tool automatically extracts useful information from it and feeds a ray-tracing model to estimate noise levels. The results show average levels generally over the 100 dB re 1 μPa value.
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  • English
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https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/220623
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