Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind turbines: Estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3766-3773

  Tougaard, Jakob ^a   Henriksen, Oluf Damsgaard ^a   Miller, Lee A ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; AMBIENT NOISE; DENMARK; HARBOR PORPOISE; HARBOR SEALS; IMPACT ZONES; NOISE LEVELS; NORMAL OPERATIONS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TRANSMISSION LOSS; UNDERWATER NOISE; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

ENGINES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

MAMMALS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; AUDITORY MASKING; DENMARK; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SWEDEN; UNDERWATER NOISE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOCA; PHOCOENA; POWER PLANTS; PRESSURE; WATER; WIND;

EID: 67649120086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3117444     Document Type: Article

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