Estimating the model-specific uncertainty of aircraft noise calculations

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-72

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

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

^b Amt für Natur und Umwelt Graubüden   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aircraft noise; Model uncertainty; Noise maps; Uncertainty maps

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORTS; ESTIMATION; NOISE POLLUTION;

AIRCRAFT NOISE; AIRCRAFT NOISE CALCULATIONS; INDIVIDUAL UNCERTAINTIES; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; NOISE MAP; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901638661     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: 1872910X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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