Uncertainty in outdoor sound propagation predictions as determined from high-resolution atmospheric simulations

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1828-1837

  Wilson, D Keith ^a   Andreas, Edgar L ^a   Weatherly, John W ^a   Pettit, Chris L ^b  

^a US Army Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; PARABOLIC EQUATION METHOD; PROPAGATION MODELS; PROPAGATION PATHS; SHADOW REGIONS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND PROPAGATION; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; EXHIBITIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84867926275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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