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. 2015 Nov-Dec;17(79):429–439. doi: 10.4103/1463-1741.169739

Table 3.

The number of measurement sites, the total number of measured noise levels, Leq,1-h, L10,1-h, L90,1-h, and noise climate (NC) for nighttime noise measurements

Noise parameters ASR1 ASR2 ASR3 ASR4 ASR5
No. of sites 10 11 10 7 8
No. of noise measurements 20 22 20 14 16
Leq,1-h in dBA
 Range 44.2-64.0 45.6-62.3 43.1-63.1 56.6-63.8 47.0-60.2
 Mean (SD) 54.4 (5.1) 52.9 (4.8) 52.6 (5.7) 60.5 (2.2) 53.6 (5.3)
L10,1-h in dBA
 Range 46.1-69.5 46.4-69.1 44.9-71.0 58.2-80.6 48.2-63.7
 Mean (SD) 56.9 (6.3) 55.0 (5.2) 58.7 (6.6) 65.2 (6.1) 57.6 (5.5)
L90,1-h in dBA
 Range 41.4-53.1 44.5-53.2 40.8-59.1 54.4-59.5 44.4-54.9
 Mean (SD) 49.6 (3.4) 48.1 (2.3) 48.0 (5.1) 57.1 (1.8) 49.7 (3.9)
NC in dBA
 Range 2.6-17.3 1.9-21.8 3.2-21.1 2.6-22.3 2.6-15.9
 Mean (SD) 7.3 (4.2) 6.9 (5.2) 10.7 (5.1) 8.1 (6.0) 7.9 (3.4)
ASR6 ASR7 ASR8 ASR9 ASR10
No. of sites 14 12 8 8 7
No. of Leq,1h measurements 28 24 16 16 14
Leq,1-h in dBA
 Range 49.9-65.3 50.3-65.3 46.5-65.3 51.4-70.1 50.4-63.3
 Mean (SD) 57.2 (4.5) 57.3 (4.8) 54.7 (6.7) 60.8 (5.2) 58.5 (4.4)
L10,1-h in dBA
 Range 52.3-67.5 51.9-68.9 53.0-71.0 55.7-74.1 52.1-70.5
 Mean 59.1 (4.7) 60.7 (5.3) 59.7 (6.7) 64.1 (5.3) 62.1 (6.4)
L90,1-h in dBA
 Range 47.7-64.4 45.7-59.6 45.6-55.9 49.2-61.8 47.5-57.5
 Mean 54.3 (4.7) 51.6 (3.7) 50.0 (3.9) 55.9 (4.2) 53.4 (3.2)
NC in dBA
 Range 1.2-10.2 4.3-20.5 1.9-18.1 3.7-15.7 0.9-14.0
 Mean 4.8 (3.0) 9.1 (4.3) 9.6 (5.0) 8.2 (4.1) 8.7 (4.7)
ASR11 ASR12 ASR13 ASR14 ASR15
No. of sites 10 10 5 11 5
No. of Leq,1h measurements 20 20 10 22 10
Leq,1-h in dBA
 Range 56.0-70.4 56.2-66.6 55.8-66.1 61.2-74.7 57.2-67.7
 Mean (SD) 61.3 (3.8) 61.4 (3.4) 60.1 (4.2) 67.9 (4.1) 62.6 (3.6)
L10,1-h in dBA
 Range 57.7-73.6 57.6-70.1 56.7-69.6 64.8-78.1 58.1-69.1
 Mean 63.5 (4.6) 63.8 (3.9) 63.2 (5.0) 70.5 (4.4) 64.6 (4.1)
L90,1-h in dBA
 Range 51.6-64.7 54.6-62.6 51.8-59.3 54.8-72.0 56.4-65.9
 Mean 56.9 (4.1) 58.2 (3.1) 56.2 (2.5) 64.0 (4.2) 61.5 (3.4)
NC in dBA
 Range 1.9-15.4 2.1-9.8 2.4-12.4 1.4-11.9 1.2-5.6
 Mean 6.6 (3.5) 5.5 (2.3) 7.0 (4.0) 6.5 (3.2) 3.1 (1.5)
ASR16 ASR17 ASR18 ASR19 ASR20
No. of sites 13 10 10 8 4
No. of Leq,1h measurements 26 20 20 16 8
Leq,1-h in dBA
 Range 50.8-64.9 50.5-65.2 55.6-72.5 54.6-72.8 57.2-65.0
 Mean (SD) 58.9 (4.0) 59.6 (4.7) 62.2 (5.2) 64.4 (6.2) 61.8 (3.2)
L10,1-h in dBA
 Range 53.2-67.0 52.1-68.3 57.2-76.3 56.8-71.1 59.7-67.6
 Mean (SD) 61.0 (4.6) 62.5 (5.1) 65.3 (5.9) 67.4 (7.4) 63.2 (3.5)
L90,1-h in dBA
 Range 47.1-61.3 47.9-62.7 46.6-64.8 51.3-66.7 53.6-60.6
 Mean (SD) 56.1 (4.0) 56.4 (4.8) 57.3 (5.0) 61.0 (5.4) 58.1 (3.3)
NC in dBA
 Range 1.1-10.6 3.9-10.0 3.1-16.2 2.0-13.0 2.0-7.2
 Mean (SD) 4.9 (2.7) 6.1 (2.1) 8.1 (3.6) 6.4 (3.6) 5.0 (2.4)