The modelling of turbulence from traffic in urban dispersion models - Part II: Evaluation against laboratory and full-scale concentration measurements in street canyons

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-172

  Kastner Klein, Petra ^a,b   Fedorovich, Evgeni ^a,c   Ketzel, Matthias ^d   Berkowicz, Ruwim ^d   Britter, Rex ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Street canyon ventilation; Traffic pollution; Traffic produced turbulence; Urban air quality modelling

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037410807     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022049224166     Document Type: Article

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