Blast noise characteristics as a function of distance for temperate and desert climates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 216-227

  Valente, Dan ^a   Ronsse, Lauren M ^a   Pater, Larry ^a   White, Michael J ^a   Serwy, Roger ^a   Nykaza, Edward T ^a   Swearingen, Michelle E ^a   Albert, Donald G ^b  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLAST NOISE; BLAST SOUNDS; DESERT CLIMATES; FLAT TERRAINS; HIGH VARIABILITY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SOUND EXPOSURE LEVELS; SOUND LEVEL; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TIME OF DAY; WINTER SEASONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84863640157     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4728171     Document Type: Article

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