Accurate barrier modeling in the presence of atmospheric effects

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-182

  Muradali, A ^a   Fyfe, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; Barriers; Diffraction; Road noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040290107     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(98)00023-1     Document Type: Article

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