Simple model of the Urban Atmospheric Boundary Layer (UABL)

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 25, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 217-223

  Janour, Zbynek ^a,b,c   Bezpalcova, Klara ^a,d   Sedenkova, Hana ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF THERMOMECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ^*  (Czech Republic)

^c Scientific Board Positions   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Canopy layer; Mixing layer; Roughness length; Universal profile; Urban area; Wind tunnel; Wind velocity

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND TUNNELS;

CANOPY LAYER; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; UNIVERSAL PROFILE; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (UABL); WIND VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CANOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; URBAN AREA; VISCOMETRY; WIND;

EID: 27144489485     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijep.2005.007668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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