Effect of a row of trees behind noise barriers in wind

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 869-878

  Van Renterghem, T ^a   Botteldooren, D ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FORESTRY; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VEGETATION; WIND EFFECTS;

NOISE BARRIERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

FREQUENCIES; NOISE; ROADS; TREES; WIND;

EID: 0036872516     PISSN: 14367947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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