Application of a prognostic model TAPM to sea-breeze flows, surface concentrations, and fumigating plumes

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 591-601

  Luhar, Ashok K ^a   Hurley, Peter J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal air pollution; Dispersion models; Kwinana Coastal Fumigation Study; Meteorological modelling; Model evaluation; Sea breeze; Shoreline diffusion; Wind direction shear

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUMIGATION; METEOROLOGY; POWER PLANTS;

AIR POLLUTION MODELS; POWER PLANT STACKS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODELING; PLUME; SEA BREEZE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KWINANA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1642273147     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2003.08.011     Document Type: Article

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