Testing meteorological classifications for the prediction of long-term average sound levels

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 925-950

  Heimann, D ^a   Salomons, E M ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Long term sound levels; Meteorological classifications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; LOGARITHMIC PROFILES; SOUND LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 3242746784     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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