On relationships between urban and rural near-surface meteorology for diffusion applications

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 6541-6553

  Luhar, Ashok K ^a   Venkatram, Akula ^b   Lee, Sang Mi ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

BUBBLE experiment; Internal boundary layer; TAPM; Urban dispersion; Urban meteorology; Urban rural differences

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RURAL AREAS;

BUBBLE EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; TAPM; URBAN DISPERSION; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENCES;

URBAN PLANNING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; RURAL AREA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA;

BASEL-LAND; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33748430511     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.05.067     Document Type: Article

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