Observation of low-frequency acoustic surface waves in the nocturnal boundary layer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1956-1962

  Talmadge, Carrick L ^a   Waxler, Roger ^a   Di, Xiao ^a   Gilbert, Kenneth E ^a   Kulichkov, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELASTIC WAVES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; METRIC SYSTEM; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; NIGHTTIME MEASUREMENTS; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; TERRAIN SURFACES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSMISSION MODES;

SURFACE WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53949091859     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967474     Document Type: Article

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