Aircraft noise: Accounting for changes in air traffic with time of day

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-199

  Schäffer, Beat ^a   Bütikofer, Rudolf ^a   Plüss, Stefan ^a   Thomann, Georg ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Amt für Natur und Umwelt Graubünden ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFICS; AIRCRAFT NOISE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING APPROACH; NIGHT TIME; RADAR DATA; TIME OF DAY;

AIRCRAFT; LAND USE; NOISE POLLUTION;

FLIGHT PATHS;

ACOUSTICS; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; SWITZERLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SOCIAL PLANNING; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79551671081     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3518729     Document Type: Article

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