Outdoor Sound Propagation

Catalog description

The course provides an overview of the ongoing research, theory, and practice of outdoor sound propagation, also called atmospheric acoustics. Topics covered include sound propagation over realistic ground surfaces (including barriers and terrain) with temperature gradients and turbulence, computational methods for outdoor sound, outdoor sound metrics, and experimental techniques for measuring sound outdoors. Ongoing research in outdoor sound will be discussed, as prediction of sound levels in complicated environments, including in a real atmosphere and over real ground surfaces, does not match experimental measurements.