Estimation of meteorological parameters for air quality management: Coupling of sodar data with simple numerical models

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 509-515

  Melas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Abbate, Giulia ^c   Haralampopoulos, Dias ^b   Kelesidis, Alexandros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER SODAR; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND FIELD;

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EID: 0034029203     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<0509:EOMPFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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