Urban morphological analysis for mesoscale meteorological and dispersion modeling applications: Current issues

5th Symposium on the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 359-368

  Burian, Steven J ^a,e   Brown, Michael J ^b   Ching, Jason ^c   Cheuk, Mang Lung ^d   Yuan, May ^d   Han, WooSuk ^a   McKinnon, Andrew T ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DISPERSION MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 22144433728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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