The potential of natural sounds to mask wind turbine noise

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 131-137

  Bolin, Karl ^a   Nilsson, Mats E ^b   Khan, Shafiquzzaman ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; WATER WAVES;

AUDITORY MASKING; DECIDUOUS TREES; DETECTION THRESHOLD; NATURAL SOUNDS; PARTIAL LOUDNESS; PERCEIVED LOUDNESS; THRESHOLD TRACKING METHOD; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 77949409044     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918264     Document Type: Article

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