Relating plume spread to meteorology in urban areas

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 371-380

  Venkatram, Akula ^a   Isakov, Vlad ^b   Pankratz, David ^a   Yuan, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrio logan; Data analysis; Dispersion; Dispersion model; Field experiment; Plume spread; Tracer study; Turbulent intensity; Urban areas; Urban dispersion

Indexed keywords

PLUME SPREAD; SHORELINES; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ROUGHNESS SUBLAYER (RSL);

ANEMOMETERS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CURVE FITTING; DISPERSION (WAVES); METEOROLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

URBAN PLANNING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; MODELING; PLUME; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA;

ANEMOMETER; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

QUERCUS;

EID: 10344246576     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.08.045     Document Type: Article

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