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Changes in the soundscape of Girona during the COVID lockdown

Author(s) -

Rosa Ma AlsinaPagès,

Pau Bergadà,

Carme Martínez-Suquía

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/10.0004986

Subject(s) - soundscape , geography , covid-19 , noise (video) , computer science , sound (geography) , acoustics , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , infectious disease (medical specialty) , image (mathematics)

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 L Aeq 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 L Aeq changes especially in nightlife areas of the city, moderate L Aeq changes in commercial and restaurants areas, and low L Aeq changes in dense traffic areas.

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