Ground effect for A-weighted noise in the presence of turbulence and refraction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1013-1022

  Attenborough, Keith ^a   Li, Kai Ming ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SURFACE PROPERTY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 15144361972     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419854     Document Type: Article

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