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Atmospheric acoustics is the science of sound propagation in the atmosphere The basic geometry with a source and a receiver is illustrated in Fig. 1.1. Sound waves are generated by a source and travel through the atmosphere to a receiver The source may be a whistling bird, as in Fig. 1.1. Other important example: of sources are cars, trains, and airplanes.
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Salomons, E.M. (2001). Introduction. In: Computational Atmospheric Acoustics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0660-6_1
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