Full text of this article is only available in PDF format.

Seppo Kellomäki (email), Antti Haapanen, Hellevi Salonen

Tree stands in urban noise abatement.

Kellomäki S., Haapanen A., Salonen H. (1976). Tree stands in urban noise abatement. Silva Fennica vol. 10 no. 3 article id 4949. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a14795

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine which characteristics of tree stands could be used in urban noise control and to develop guidelines for practical urban forestry. The attenuation of artificially produced noise was measured in various types of stands. The effect of tree stands on noise attenuation has been analysed using a model based on the physics of sound propagation.

The results show that the excess noise attenuation caused by trees can be in good situations 60% measured in energy units, compared with the attenuation caused by geometric spreading. This is 5–8 dB. The total amount of needles, leaves and branches of a stand proved to be the most important factors in noise attenuation. However, the density and height of a stand had rather high value in predicting the behaviour of noise in tree stands. Based on multiple regression between noise attenuation and tree species composition, density and height of a stand it was developed the nomograms with which the noise level at a certain point can be predicted when the tree stand characteristics, the distance and the noise level of the noise source are known and on the opposite way.

The PDF includes a summary in Finnish.

Keywords
stand characteristics; noise abatement; urban forests

Published in 1976

Views 5564

Available at https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a14795 | Download PDF

Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0

Register
Click this link to register to Silva Fennica.
Log in
If you are a registered user, log in to save your selected articles for later access.
Contents alert
Sign up to receive alerts of new content

Your selected articles
Send to email
Heikurainen L., (1960) Swamp forestry research in Finland. Silva Fennica vol. 0 no. 108 article id 4696 (remove) | Edit comment
Klemetti V.-K., (1957) Evaluation of growing stock in the pricing of se.. Silva Fennica vol. no. 92 article id 4664 (remove) | Edit comment
Finnish Society of Forest Science ., (1961) 50 years’ jubilee of the Society of Forestry in .. Silva Fennica vol. 0 no. 111 article id 4698 (remove) | Edit comment
Harstela P., Maukkonen A. (1983) A conventional and grapple loader processor in s.. Silva Fennica vol. 17 no. 2 article id 5179 (remove) | Edit comment
Cajander A. K., (1922) Determining concepts for topography of plants Acta Forestalia Fennica vol. 20 no. 2 article id 7062 (remove) | Edit comment
Päivänen J., (1982) Physical properties of peat samples in relation .. Silva Fennica vol. 16 no. 3 article id 5161 (remove) | Edit comment
Innes J. L., (1993) Methods to estimate forest health. Silva Fennica vol. 27 no. 2 article id 5507 (remove) | Edit comment
Bolli J. C., Rigling A. et al. (2007) The influence of changes in climate and land-use.. Silva Fennica vol. 41 no. 1 article id 307 (remove) | Edit comment
Korhonen K. T., Maltamo M. (1991) The evaluation of forest inventory designs using.. Silva Fennica vol. 25 no. 2 article id 5444 (remove) | Edit comment
Saari E., (1932) Studies on cost of raw materials in the Finnish .. Acta Forestalia Fennica vol. 38 no. 4 article id 7270 (remove) | Edit comment
Lifländer A., (1957) Centralized fellings in Northern Finland and the.. Silva Fennica vol. no. 92 article id 4655 (remove) | Edit comment
Riihinen P., (1982) Roundwood market: A source of stagnation of the .. Silva Fennica vol. 16 no. 4 article id 5165 (remove) | Edit comment
Carolina A., Sari R. K. et al. (2024) Mechanical-chemical induction of balsam from .. Silva Fennica vol. 58 no. 2 article id 23050 (remove) | Edit comment
Kellomäki S., Haapanen A. et al. (1976) Tree stands in urban noise abatement. Silva Fennica vol. 10 no. 3 article id 4949 (remove) | Edit comment
Your search results