Annoyance, detection and recognition of wind turbine noise

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 456-457, Issue , 2013, Pages 333-345

  Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   Bockstael, Annelies ^a   De Weirt, Valentine ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Listening test; Noise annoyance; Sound detection; Sound recognition; Wind turbine noise

Indexed keywords

LISTENING TESTS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND RECOGNITION; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS; NOISE POLLUTION; WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

NOISE; ROAD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WIND TURBINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE; TRAFFIC NOISE; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; WIND;

EID: 84877003405     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.095     Document Type: Article

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