ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2021
Anthropogenic noise variation in Indian cities due to the COVID-19 lockdown during March-to-May 2020.
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- A qualitative and quantitative synthesis of the impacts of COVID-19 on soundscapes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on road traffic and noise pollution of the urban street, a case study from Krakow, Poland.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Sons al Balcó: A Comparative Analysis of WASN-BasedSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Relationship between indoor noise perception and remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- FORUM: Remote testing for psychological and physiological acoustics.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- How the COVID-19 Pandemic Muted and Remixed the World's Acoustics for a While.Current pollution reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of a nationwide lockdown enforced during March-to-May 2020 to prevent the widespread transmission of COVID-19 on the local anthropogenic noise level variation in Indian cities. To this end, data obtained from the National Ambient Noise Monitoring Network (NANMN) was used to analyze the long-term daily evolution of average day- and night-time levels at selected locations across seven major cities. The results indicate that when the strict lockdown phase 1 was declared, all industrial (I), commercial (C), and residential (R) zones experienced either a gradual or sudden decrease in noise levels while the silence (S) zone was unaffected. Depending on the zone, the weekly trend graphs reached a minimum either during phase 1 or conditionally relaxed phase 2. Across I, C, and R zones, the average maximum day- and night-time reduction with respect to the pre-lockdown period ranged from 4 to 13.8 dB(A) and 4 to 14.1 dB(A), respectively. As anticipated, with a gradual ease in restrictions from phase 2 onwards, the levels climbed back almost linearly, and during unlocks, the daily variation resembled the pre-lockdown trend. Furthermore, the responses to an online COVID-19 noise perception survey supported the NANMN results and suggested that the lockdown was quieter.
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