Validation study of the dispersion Lagrangian particle model DIPCOT over complex topographies using different concentration calculation methods

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 20, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 33-46

  Davakis, E ^a   Nychas, S G ^a   Andronopoulos, S ^b   Bartzis, J G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND RADIATION PROTECTION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Box counting; Kernel density estimation; Lagrangian particle model; Validation procedures

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; DISPERSION; MODEL VALIDATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 2342423997     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijep.2003.004242     Document Type: Article

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