Modeling point source plumes at high altitudes using a modified Gaussian model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 821-831

  Mehdizadeh, Fariba ^a   Rifai, Hanadi S ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Emission modeling; Industrial Source Complex Model; Point sources; SO2

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CALIBRATION; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; METEOROLOGY; POWER PLANTS; QUERY LANGUAGES; THERMAL PLUMES; WIND;

POINT SOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MODELING; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FLIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PLUME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0347985682     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.10.041     Document Type: Article

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