The International Impulsive Noise Register for the Mediterranean Sea Region (INR-MED)

Enguix, Ivan Felis; Egea, Marta Sánchez; Molina, Pablo Ruiz; Maglio, Alessio; Salvias, Maylis

doi:10.1109/oceanse.2019.8867483

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“…The online platform developed by ICES has enabled the centralisation of regional impulsive noise monitoring across Europe, and now includes the Mediterranean. However, at the time of writing, France is the only country to have reported data for the Mediterranean (see also Enguix et al, 2019). Further work is needed to extend regional monitoring to the Black Sea.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Early work to establish regional monitoring and assessment of impulsive noise in the Mediterranean was carried out under the aegis of ACCOBAMS (Maglio et al, 2015(Maglio et al, , 2016 and subsequently under the EU-funded projects QUIETMED and QUIETMED2 [ (Maglio et al, 2018;Enguix et al, 2019); Table 2]. The Mediterranean impulsive noise register is now being developed in consultation with ICES.…”

Section: Mediterranean Seamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impulsive noise registries established by the Regional Seas Conventions are enabling region-scale assessment of the pressure from impulsive noise for the first time. However, the coverage of these registries remains incomplete, with many countries yet to put in place reporting procedures for all qualifying impulsive noise events in their waters (HELCOM, 2018;Enguix et al, 2019;Merchant et al, 2020). There is also a need to fully quantify the extent of impulsive noise activity from military sources.…”

Section: Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…To analyze the extent and structure of assessment input data available in regional noise registries, we downloaded data from three publicly available regional databases that currently hold datasets on impulsive underwater noise. These databases were the ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) noise registry [5], containing impulsive noise data for the regions of OSPAR (Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic) and HELCOM (Commission for the Protection of the Baltic Marine Environment); the INR-MED noise registry, which has been developed under the QUIETMED project [6], containing impulsive noise data for the Mediterranean Sea region; and the EMODnet Physics European Impulsive Noise Events Registry [7], containing subsets of data from different regions.…”

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A Case Study-Based Analysis of Uncertainties on the Assessment of Impulsive Underwater Noise for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) has been an important driver for progress in monitoring and assessment of impulsive underwater noise in the marine environment of the European Union. An important achievement of the MSFD implementation was the development of regional noise registries, providing the data basis for assessments. Recently, the EU has made tremendous efforts to propose harmonized assessment approaches and first-of-their-kind regional quantitative thresholds for impulsive underwater noise. In light of these newly developed thresholds values, we analyze the suitability of the available data in the noise registries for assessment purposes under the MSFD and review sources of uncertainties regarding quantitative results. We present three regional case studies located in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. For each of these regions, a sound-intensive activity was selected that aligned with a realistic impulsive noise event reported for the region. We made use of available data in the noise registries and applied the EU Guidance recommended for the description of impulsive noise sources, but also used alternative approaches and observations as comparison. The case study analysis includes the evaluation of data availability, data quality and data accuracy in the noise registries, and identifies corresponding consequences of the data for the uncertainty and interpretability of assessment results, especially for the quantitative evaluation of habitat areas impacted by noise. Finally, we make suggestions for the improvement of the data basis in the noise registries and the optimization of the assessment accuracy.

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Ambient Noise from Seismic Surveys in the Southern Adriatic Sea

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Holcer

2020

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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The International Impulsive Noise Register for the Mediterranean Sea Region (INR-MED)

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

A decade of underwater noise research in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

A decade of underwater noise research in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

A Case Study-Based Analysis of Uncertainties on the Assessment of Impulsive Underwater Noise for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Ambient Noise from Seismic Surveys in the Southern Adriatic Sea

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