Preliminary sensitivity analysis of urban airshed model simulations to temporal and spatial availability of boundary layer wind measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2027-2042

  Al Wali, Khalid I ^a   Samson, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian particle model; Southern oxidants study

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; OZONE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIME; URBAN AREA; WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY LAYER WIND MEASUREMENT; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODEL; OXIDANTS; UPPER AIR MEASUREMENT; URBAN AIRSHED MODEL SIMULATIONS; WIND FLOW SIMULATIONS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODEL; LPDM; OXIDANT STUDY; SORP-ONA; UAM; URBAN AIRSHED MODEL; WIND MEASUREMENT;

USA, GEORGIA, ATLANTA;

EID: 0030174168     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00337-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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