Multiscale plume transport from the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 425-450

  Stenchikov, Georgiy ^a   Lahoti, Nilesh ^b,c   Diner, David J ^d   Kahn, Ralph ^d   Lioy, Paul J ^b,c   Georgopoulos, Panos G ^b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; Aerosol plume; Hybrid Particle and Concentration Transport Model; Multi angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer; Particulate matter; Regional Atmospheric Modeling System; Terrorist attack; Transport; Urban pollution; World Trade Center

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL; IMAGING METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TERRORISM; URBAN POLLUTION; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

EID: 33749178755     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-006-9001-8     Document Type: Article

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