Determining cross-wind variance for low frequency wind meander

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Maryon, R H ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross wind velocity variance; Dispersion modelling; Meander; Wind spectra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CROSS WIND VELOCITY VARIANCE; DISPERSION MODELING; EDDY VARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN MODELS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; DISPERSION; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE; TURBULENCE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CROSS WIND VARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN MODEL; WIND MEANDER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANCE; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0031986443     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00325-7     Document Type: Article

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