Determination of transport wind speed in the Gaussian plume diffusion equation for low-lying point sources

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 661-665

  Wang, I T ^a  

^a Environmental Modeling and Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian plume; Plume kinematics; Transport wind speed

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

AIR POLLUTION; GAUSSIAN PLUME DIFFUSION; GAUSSIAN PLUME EQUATION; PLUME KINEMATICS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED;

DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS; GAUSSIAN; PLUMES; TRANSPORT; WIND SPEEDS;

EID: 0029656414     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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