Effects of topography and urbanization on local winds and thermal environment in the Nohbi Plain, coastal region of central Japan: A numerical analysis by mesoscale meteorological model with a k-ε turbulence model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 10 PART I, 1998, Pages 1026-1046

  Kitada, Toshihiro ^a   Okamura, Kiyoshi ^a   Tanaka, Setsu ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; URBANIZATION; WIND FIELD;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032461129     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<1026:eotauo>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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