TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in the soundscape of Girona during the COVID lockdown
AU - Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma
AU - Bergadà, Pau
AU - Martínez-Suquía, Carme
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the funding from Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca from the Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement (Generalitat de Catalunya) and Universitat Ramon Llull, under Grant No. 2020-URL-Proj-054 (R.M.A.-P.). We would like to acknowledge Ajuntament de Girona for the data samples provided from their WASN.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Acoustical Society of America.
PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - The lockdown measures in Spain due to COVID-19 social measures showed a wide decrease in the urban noise levels observed. This paper presents an analysis of the noise levels in Girona, a 100 000 citizen city in the North-East of Catalonia (Spain). We present the LAeq levels in four different locations from January 2020 to June 2020, including all the stages of the lockdown. Several comparisons are conducted with the monitoring data available from the previous years (2019, 2018, and 2017, when available). This analysis is part of the project "Sons al Balcó,"which aims to draw the soundscape of Catalonia during the lockdown. The results of the analysis in Girona show drastic LAeq changes especially in nightlife areas of the city, moderate LAeq changes in commercial and restaurants areas, and low LAeq changes in dense traffic areas.
AB - The lockdown measures in Spain due to COVID-19 social measures showed a wide decrease in the urban noise levels observed. This paper presents an analysis of the noise levels in Girona, a 100 000 citizen city in the North-East of Catalonia (Spain). We present the LAeq levels in four different locations from January 2020 to June 2020, including all the stages of the lockdown. Several comparisons are conducted with the monitoring data available from the previous years (2019, 2018, and 2017, when available). This analysis is part of the project "Sons al Balcó,"which aims to draw the soundscape of Catalonia during the lockdown. The results of the analysis in Girona show drastic LAeq changes especially in nightlife areas of the city, moderate LAeq changes in commercial and restaurants areas, and low LAeq changes in dense traffic areas.
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U2 - 10.1121/10.0004986
DO - 10.1121/10.0004986
M3 - Article
C2 - 34241134
AN - SCOPUS:85106635613
SN - 0001-4966
VL - 149
SP - 3416
EP - 3423
JO - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
IS - 5
ER -