2006 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA7 Technical Report - Underwater Ambient Noise (NE Atlantic west of Scotland)
This report on underwater noise is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA7) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report initially gives a general introduction to underwater ambient noise and the underlying mechanisms that generate sound. The report then identifies a number of sources of underwater acoustic noise, describes the characteristics of the noise including frequency content, levels and variability, and also identifies the current state of knowledge on each source. In all cases the sources are considered in the context of the SEA 7 area. Mechanisms that can modify the ambient sound levels are described. The dominant noise sources in the SEA 7 area are identified. Recommendations are then made for the methodology to be used to obtain meaningful characterisation of noise levels in order to establish baseline levels. The report then goes on to present an analysis of measured ambient noise data in the SEA 7 area, model predictions of spectrum levels, and compares the measured and modelled data.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2006-03-14
- Identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_109
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Production and industrial facilities
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
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- Intellectual property rights
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- 5 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
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- English
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- Oceans
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Unique resource identifier
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Begin date
- 2006-01-01
- End date
- 2006-01-01
- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- OnLine resource
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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS.
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This report was prepared by E J Harland and S D Richards of QinetiQ as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme.
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- aba64100-c161-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
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- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2011-08-30
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
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Version 2.3.5