The Loudness of Impulse and Road-Traffic Sounds in the Presence of Masking Background Noise

Acustica

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1119-1130

  Vos, Joos ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

BACKGROUND NOISE (BN); ZWICKER'S LOUDNESS MODEL;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY;

EID: 0032202899     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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