
Excess Attenuation due to Meteorological Influences and Ground Impedance
Gaussian plume models are used to calculate the propagation of air pollution in the atmosphere. The assumption on the physical structure of the atmosphere implied by those models is used to formulate an acoustic ray model which allows to take into consideration the non-linear functional
dependence of the sound speed with height above ground. To obtain a simply to handle propagation model, a second order approximation for the ray traces is used. From this the so called ground effect and meteorological excess attenuation are calculated for spherical waves including the effect
of turbulence. It is shown that such a model closely reproduces for stable weather conditions the excess attenuation as described in ISO 9613-2. The general method in ISO 9613-2 is reproduced in its general frequency structure for coherent sources or incoherent sources where the angle of observation
between the source and the mirror source is small. Applications of the model to calculate the time history of moving sources under specific weather conditions are demonstrated as well as the calculation of the frequency distribution of the levels as they may be observed from one source at
a specific site.
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Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: September 1, 1998
- Acta Acustica united with Acustica, published together with the European Acoustics Association (EAA), is an international, peer-reviewed journal on acoustics. It publishes original articles on all subjects in the field of acoustics, such as general linear acoustics, nonlinear acoustics, macrosonics, flow acoustics, atmospheric sound, underwater sound, ultrasonics, physical acoustics, structural acoustics, noise control, active control, environmental noise, building acoustics, room acoustics, acoustic materials, acoustic signal processing, computational and numerical acoustics, hearing, audiology and psychoacoustics, speech, musical acoustics, electroacoustics, auditory quality of systems. It reports on original scientific research in acoustics and on engineering applications. The journal considers scientific papers, technical and applied papers, book reviews, short communications, doctoral thesis abstracts, etc. In irregular intervals also special issues and review articles are published.
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