Detailed simulations of atmospheric flow and dispersion in downtown Manhattan: An applications of five computational fluid dynamics models

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1713-1726

  Hanna, Steven R ^a,i   Brown, Michael J ^b   Camelli, Fernando E ^c   Chan, Stevens T ^d   Coirier, William J ^e   Hansen, Olav R ^f   Huber, Alan H ^g   Kim, Sura ^e   Reynolds, R Michael ^h  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^f GEXCON AS   (Norway)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; WIND FLOW;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 33846479294     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-12-1713     Document Type: Article

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