A two-dimensional air quality model in an urban street canyon: Evaluation and sensitivity analysis

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 689-698

  Huang, Hong ^a   Akutsu, Yoshiaki ^a   Arai, Mitsuru ^a   Tamura, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

k turbulent model; Street canyon two dimensional model; Transport and diffusion; Vehicle emissions; Wind and concentration distributions

Indexed keywords

URBAN STREET CANYON;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; EXHAUST GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; STREET CANYON; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; CALCULATION; EVALUATION; EXHAUST GAS; MODEL; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WIND;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033627285     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00333-7     Document Type: Article

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