Low-frequency outdoor-indoor noise level difference for wind turbine assessment

Pontus Thorsson; Kerstin Persson Waye; Michael Smith; Mikael Ögren; Eja Pedersen; Jens Forssén

doi:10.1121/1.5027018

Low-frequency outdoor-indoor noise level difference for wind turbine assessment

J Acoust Soc Am. 2018 Mar;143(3):EL206. doi: 10.1121/1.5027018.

Authors

Pontus Thorsson¹, Kerstin Persson Waye², Michael Smith², Mikael Ögren², Eja Pedersen³, Jens Forssén⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Applied Acoustics, Chalmers University of Technology and Akustikverkstan AB, Lidköping, Sweden pontus.thorsson@akustikverkstan.se.
² University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gothenburg, Sweden kerstin.persson.waye@amm.gu.se, michael.smith@amm.gu.se, mikael.ogren@amm.gu.se.
³ Environmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Lund University, Lund, Sweden eja.pederssen@arkitektur.lth.se.
⁴ Division of Applied Acoustics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden jens.forssen@chalmers.se.

PMID: 29604721
DOI: 10.1121/1.5027018

Abstract

To increase the understanding of wind turbine noise on sleep, human physiological reactions need to be studied in a controlled laboratory setting. The paper presents an outdoor-indoor noise level difference as a function of frequency, applicable to creating wind turbine indoor sounds with the outdoor sounds as input. For this, a combination of measurement data and modeling results has been used. The suggested data are provided in a table.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't