Modelling mixing height from routinely measured surface and upper air meteorological data

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-200

  Khan, Suhail M ^a   Simpson, Rod W ^b  

^a Department of Environment ^*  (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric stability; Meteorological regime; Mixing height; Modelling; Surface heat flux

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGICAL REGIME; MIXING HEIGHT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL DATA; UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE;

MIXING;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 21944436857     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019009327212     Document Type: Article

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