A new hypothesis on meandering atmospheric flows in low wind speed conditions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1739-1748

  Oettl, D ^a   Goulart, A ^b   Degrazia, G ^c   Anfossi, D ^d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Depto de Cie Exatas e da Terra URI   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coriolis; Dispersion; Geostrophic balance; Langevin equations; Low wind speeds; Meandering; Navier Stokes equations; Reynolds stress

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CORIOLIS FORCES; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; REYNOLDS STRESS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; FLOW KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EID: 14644433797     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.11.034     Document Type: Article

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