Meteorological influence on sound propagation between adjacent city canyons: A real-life experiment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3335-3346

  Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; COHERENCE LOSS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL INFLUENCE; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; QUALITY CHECKS; RECORDED SIGNALS; SHORT PROPAGATION; SOUND FREQUENCY; SOUND PROPAGATION; STREET CANYON; TEST SIGNAL; URBAN SETTINGS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; WIND SPEED;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; REFRACTION; ROADS AND STREETS; WIND EFFECTS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 77953555165     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3425731     Document Type: Article

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