Acoustic scintillations and angle-of-arrival fluctuations observed outdoors with a large planar vertical microphone array

D. Keith Wilson, Calandra R. Tate, David C. Swanson, Karl M. Reichard · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1999

A vertical planar array of 32 microphones (eight elements in the vertical direction and four in the horizontal; overall dimensions approximately 6 m by 3 m) was used to image the scintillations and angle-of-arrival fluctuations from a source 770 m distant. Data sets of 20-min duration were collected in a variety atmospheric conditions. On a windy afternoon, the source image underwent dramatic scintillations and fluctuations in its apparent position. For still nighttime conditions, the image was much more stable, although deep fading still occurred.

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