Prediction of noise propagation. A summary of the special session of DEGA 2000 on immission prognosis.

Abstract

The annual meeting of the German Acoustical Society, the so-called DEGA, started March 2000 with a special session on the state-of-the-art of immission prognosis.General aspects of basic physical properties affecting the approaches to model noise propagation outdoors were discussed in relation to engineering-like and empirical methods to achieve satisfactory prognosis results.10 papers were presented ranging from numerical calculation of wave propagation to in-situ measurements of the immission of airplane noise.Emphasis was laid in taking meteorological influence into account.