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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2021 Apr 20;197:111064. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111064

Table 2.

Summary of noise metrics for all sites (G and S sites), and for weekday and weekend periods at G sites. Intermittency ratios (IR) use C=5 dB.

Measure Period Weekday All (N=21)
Weekday G Sites (N=15)
Weekend G Sites (N=15)
Ave Min Max Ave Min Max Ave Min Max
SPL, averaged and 1-hr 90th percentile
 Leq(h) 24-h 62.1 55.3 73.8 59.0 55.3 64.0 57.6 53.3 62.2
 Leq(h) Day 63.0 55.8 75.4 59.6 55.8 64.9 57.5 52.9 62.3
 Leq(h) Evening 61.0 54.8 71.2 58.5 54.8 64.1 58.1 53.7 64.9
 Leq(h) Night 60.2 54.3 70.0 57.9 54.3 64.2 57.3 53.6 62.7
 L10(h) - 64.3 57.7 76.7 61.1 57.7 68.6 58.9 54.5 64.5
 LDN 24-h 66.8 60.4 76.8 64.1 60.4 70.1 63.8 59.9 69.0
 LDEN 24-h 67.1 60.7 77.1 64.4 60.7 70.3 64.1 60.2 69.4
Intermittency Ratio
 IR(5) 24-h 39.3 5.6 86.7 28.1 5.6 60.6 23.9 1.6 54.0
 IR(5) Day 42.7 6.3 85.8 32.6 6.3 71.0 22.7 2.1 63.9
 IR(5) Evening 31.1 3.3 85.6 18.9 3.3 76.4 15.1 1.8 46.2
 IR(5) Night 26.9 1.9 89.4 14.6 1.9 45.2 12.8 0.4 31.3
Time fraction over SPL threshold
 F50(h) 24-h 0.96 0.71 1.00 0.98 0.87 1.00 0.97 0.89 1.00
 F60(h) 24-h 0.32 0.02 0.98 0.20 0.02 0.72 0.16 0.00 0.57
 F65(h) 24-h 0.12 0.00 0.64 0.03 0.00 0.14 0.02 0.00 0.05
 F70(h) 24-h 0.03 0.00 0.20 0.01 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.02
Peak SPL, averaged
 Lp10(h)_ave 24-h 60.9 55.3 71.0 58.5 55.3 63.4 57.8 53.9 62.4
 Lp2(h)_ave 24-h 63.0 56.2 75.4 59.8 56.2 65.2 59.0 55.0 64.5
 Lp1(h)_ave 24-h 63.3 56.4 76.0 60.0 56.4 65.4 59.2 55.2 64.8
 Lp0(h)_ave 24-h 63.6 56.5 76.4 60.2 56.5 65.7 59.4 55.3 65.0
Peak SPL, by percentile
 Lp10(h)_p10 - 67.5 60.7 80.7 64.3 60.7 69.1 62.6 58.2 68.5
 Lp2(h)_p2 - 80.3 67.7 98.7 75.0 67.7 85.9 73.6 63.5 82.6
 Lp1(h)_p1 - 85.0 70.4 102.1 79.9 70.4 94.5 78.5 65.3 87.0
 Lp0(h)_p0 - 93.6 72.9 105.0 89.3 72.9 104.0 88.8 69.4 103.6