Urban roughness modelling in relation to pollutant dispersion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3059-3075

  Bottema, Marcel ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building groups; Model; Street canyons; Urban atmosphere

Indexed keywords

URBAN ROUGHNESS;

BUILDINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR POLLUTION;

DISPERSION; POLLUTANTS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUILDING; DISPLACEMENT HEIGHT; POLLUTANT DISPERSION; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BUILDING; CITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; WIND;

EID: 0031238512     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00117-9     Document Type: Article

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