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The day-night average sound level (Ldn or DNL) is the average noise level over a 24-hour period. The noise level measurements between the hours of 22:00 and 07:00 are artificially increased by 10 dB before averaging. This noise is weighted to take into account the decrease in community background noise of 10 dB during this period.
The day–evening–night noise level or L den is a 2002 European standard to express noise level over an entire day. It imposes a penalty on sound levels during evening and night [1] and it is primarily used for noise assessments of airports, busy main roads, main railway lines and in cities over 100,000 residents.
Seattle, WA {Section 25.08.501} considers the sound emitted to be in violation if the sound is plainly audible within a dwelling from 10 pm to 7am; the need for a sound level meter is avoided. Chicago, IL {Section 11-4-2805} limits received sound levels to 55 dB(A) inside a residential dwelling unit but if the ambient is greater, the limit is ...
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It can be seen as random speckles on an old analog TV set dialed to an empty channel. Although lightning has a broad-spectrum emission, its noise power increases with decreasing frequency. Therefore, at very low frequency and low frequency , atmospheric noise often dominates, while at high frequency , man-made noise dominates in urban areas.