The proposed personal calculator program is based on ANSI S1.26-1978. "Standard Method for the Calculation of the Absorption of Sound by the Atmosphere." Apart from the absorption for pure tones, the program computes the absorption for octave or one-third-octave bands of white noise, as required in the calculation of reverberation processes and noise propagation.

Author: Bernfeld, Benjamin
Affiliation: IRCAM, Paris, France
JAES Volume 28 Issue 7/8 pp. 521-524; August 1980
Publication Date: August 1, 1980

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