Characterization of uncertainty in outdoor sound propagation predictions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Wilson, D Keith ^a   Andreas, Edgar L ^a   Weatherly, John W ^a   Pettit, Chris L ^b   Patton, Edward G ^c   Sullivan, Peter P ^c  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE SHADOW;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOUND; WIND;

EID: 34247887601     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2716159     Document Type: Article

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