Venting of heat and carbon dioxide from urban canyons at night

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1180-1194

  Salmond, J A ^a,b   Oke, T R ^a   Grimmond, C S B ^c   Roberts, S ^a   Offerle, B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

NOCTURNAL SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TURBULENT FLUXES; TURBULENT TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEAT FLUX; STREET CANYON; URBAN AREA;

BOUCHES-DU-RHONE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MARSEILLES; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 25444482834     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2260.1     Document Type: Article

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