Growing concern about the impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine life has led to a global increase in the number of acoustic monitoring programmes aiming to quantify underwater soundscapes. However, low-frequency measurements in coastal sites may be affected by flow noise that is not actually present in the environment, but is caused by tidal flow turbulence around the hydrophone. At present, there is no standard way of removing this contaminating noise. This study presents an approach to exclude tidal influences (flow noise and other tidal-related acoustic self-noise) on ambient sound measurements, using data recorded at ten Scottish coastal sites between 2013 and 2017, and with a focus on the 63 and 125\u2009Hz 1/3-octave bands. The annual ambient sound pressure levels (SPL) of the full and \u201ctidal influence excluded\u201d datasets of the three most tidally affected sites were compared against hypothetical noise thresholds. For the 63\u2009Hz 1/3-octave band, results revealed: Site-specific patterns in the amount of data excluded (28.2%\u201389.2%), decreases in SPL (0.7\u20138.5 dB), and differences in the percentage of time that noise thresholds were exceeded. The described approach may serve as a standardised way of excluding tidal influence on soundscape descriptors.
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