Experiments on buoyant plume dispersion in a laboratory convection tank

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 367-414

  Weil, Jeffrey C ^a,b   Snyder, William H ^c   Lawson Jr , Robert E ^c   Shipman, Michael S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Geophex Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersion; Buoyant plumes; Concentrations; Convection tank; Convective boundary layer; Laboratory simulations

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; MIXING; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL PLUMES;

COVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS (CBL);

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; LABORATORY METHOD;

EID: 0036498943     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013874816509     Document Type: Article

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