A wind tunnel study of gaseous tracer dispersion in the convective boundary layer capped by a temperature inversion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 2245-2255

  Fedorovich, E ^a,b   Thater J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyant forcing; Concentration; Plume dispersion; Turbulence; Wind shear

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LABORATORIES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

GASEOUS TRACER DISPERSION;

WIND TUNNELS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACER; WIND TUNNEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TRACER; WIND TUNNEL;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; GERMANY; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

EID: 0036282583     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00185-1     Document Type: Article

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