Comparative assessment of measured and modelled aircraft noise around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

The impressive growth of the aviation industry and number flights entail several environmental repercussions, such as increased aircraft noise emissions. With worrying complaints from communities around airports comes also distrust in numerical models used for prediction. In this study, we compare ‘Dutch model’ predictions to measured values NOise MOnitoring System (NOMOS) Amsterdam Airport Schiphol between 2012 2018. While model underestimates 2012, prediction improved throughout years. We observe a decreasing trend aircraft-related Lden 0.6 dB(A)/year (a total 3.6 dB(A) over investigation period), although flight movements during observation time. propose that change fleet mix, well implementation Noise Abatement Procedures at Airport, fuelled trend.