Effects of temperature induced inversion conditions on suburban highway noise levels

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1060-1070

  Chambers, James P ^a   Saurenman, Hugh ^b   Bronsdon, Robert ^c   Sutherland, Louis ^c   Waxier, Roger ^a   Gilbert, Ken ^a   Talmadge, Carrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b ATS Consultants Inc   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIND EFFECTS;

INVERSION CONDITIONS; PARABOLIC EQUATION (PE);

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845931917     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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