A local-scale modelling system to simulate smoke dispersion

Joint Meeting of the Sixth Symposium on FIre and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 187-196

  Valente, Joana ^a   Miranda, Ana I ^a   Lopes, António G ^b   Borrego, Carlos ^a   Viegas, Domingos X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

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