Flow dynamics in Athens area under moderate large-scale winds

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2209-2222

  Melas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Ziomas, Ioannis ^a   Klemm, Otto ^c   Zerefos, C S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Etesians; Numerical model simulations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND EFFECTS;

SEA BREEZE; TURBULENCE CLOSURE MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; CONFERENCE PAPER; GREECE; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EID: 0032101735     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00436-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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