A dispersion modelling system SILAM and its evaluation against ETEX data

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 674-685

  Sofiev, M ^a   Siljamo, P ^a   Valkama, I ^a   Ilvonen, M ^b   Kukkonen, J ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dispersion modelling; Emergency preparedness; Model validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CORRELATION THEORY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY; DISPERSION MODELING; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; MODEL VALIDATION;

DISPERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; MODEL VALIDATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WEATHER;

EID: 29344451665     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.09.069     Document Type: Article

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