Model predictions 2018 measurement sites : WP 4 - Deliverable/Task: T4.3
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The aim of the Jomopans project is to develop a framework for a fully operational joint monitoring
programme for ambient noise in the North Sea. Output will be the tools necessary for managers,
planners and other stakeholders to incorporate the effects of ambient noise in their assessment of the
environmental status of the North Sea, and to evaluate measures to improve the environment.
Sounds are omnipresent in the underwater environment and can be produced by natural (currents,
waves, weather, animals) and anthropogenic (shipping, construction) sources. International concern
increasingly focusses on the potential negative effects of anthropogenic underwater noise on sensitive
marine fauna. Sound sources, sound transmission, and the distributions of vulnerable species in the
North Sea are all transnational questions which must be tackled transnationally, as specifically required
by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
This report provides a description of the first and second iteration acoustic model calculations that are
delivered to WP6 for validation against the experimental data from the 2018 monitoring stations. The
observations made by WP6 described in [Putland et al, 2021] have been used to optimise the models,
hence model updates are also described in this report
programme for ambient noise in the North Sea. Output will be the tools necessary for managers,
planners and other stakeholders to incorporate the effects of ambient noise in their assessment of the
environmental status of the North Sea, and to evaluate measures to improve the environment.
Sounds are omnipresent in the underwater environment and can be produced by natural (currents,
waves, weather, animals) and anthropogenic (shipping, construction) sources. International concern
increasingly focusses on the potential negative effects of anthropogenic underwater noise on sensitive
marine fauna. Sound sources, sound transmission, and the distributions of vulnerable species in the
North Sea are all transnational questions which must be tackled transnationally, as specifically required
by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
This report provides a description of the first and second iteration acoustic model calculations that are
delivered to WP6 for validation against the experimental data from the 2018 monitoring stations. The
observations made by WP6 described in [Putland et al, 2021] have been used to optimise the models,
hence model updates are also described in this report
TNO Identifier
982425
Publisher
EU, Interreg North Sea Region JOMOPANS
Collation
57 p.