A skewed meandering plume model for concentration statistics in the convective boundary layer

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3599-3616

  Luhar, Ashok K ^a   Hibberd, Mark F ^a   Borgas, Michael S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air quality models; Concentration fluctuations; Particle models; Relative dispersion; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL PLUMES; TURBULENT FLOW;

BI-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC DISPERSION MODEL; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES); MEANDERING PLUME MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; PLUME;

CONCENTRATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; PLUME;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSION; MODEL; PARAMETER; PLUME; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VARIANCE;

EID: 0034031899     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00111-4     Document Type: Article

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