Outdoor sound propagation reference model developed in the European harmonoise project

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-227

  Defrance, Jérôme ^a   Salomons, Erik ^b   Noordhoek, Ingrid ^b   Heimann, Dietrich ^c   Plovsing, Birger ^d   Watts, Greg ^e   Jonasson, Hans ^f   Xuetao, Zhang ^f   Premat, Eric ^a   Schmich, Isabelle ^a   Aballea, François ^a   Baulac, Marine ^a   De Roo, Foort ^b  

^a CSTB   (France)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d DELTA Danish Electronics Light & Acoustics   (Denmark)

^e TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; RAILROADS; ROADS AND STREETS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMPEDANCE MODELS; NUMERICAL PROPAGATION METHODS; SOUND PROPAGATION; TERRAIN;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34247279827     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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