@TechReport{ it:2013-018, author = {Martin Almquist and Ilkka Karasalo and Ken Mattsson}, title = {Atmospheric Sound Propagation over Large-Scale Irregular Terrain}, institution = {Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University}, department = {Division of Scientific Computing}, year = {2013}, number = {2013-018}, month = sep, abstract = {A benchmark problem on atmospheric sound propagation over irregular terrain has been solved using a stable fourth-order accurate finite difference approximation of a high-fidelity acoustic model. A comparison with the parabolic equation method and ray tracing methods is made. The results show that ray tracing methods can potentially be unreliable in the presence of irregular terrain.} }