Atmospheric Attenuation of Sound

A function that returns the amospheric attenutation of sound.
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Updated 7 Oct 2004

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A still atmosphere attenuates sound as a function of frequency, temperature, relative humidity, and propagation distance. This function uses equations published by Bass et al. to calcuate the attenuation of sound for the input parameters. The function returns the attenuation in decibels.

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Nathan Burnside (2024). Atmospheric Attenuation of Sound (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6000-atmospheric-attenuation-of-sound), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R12.1
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0