A dynamical model for urban heat islands

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 463-477

  Baik, Jong Jin ^a   Chun, Hye Yeong ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diabatic forcing; Internal gravity wave; Stably stratified flow; Urban heat island; Weakly nonlinear response

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIABATIC FORCING; STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

EID: 0031413742     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000346229951     Document Type: Article

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