Flux and concentration footprint modelling: State of the art

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 653-666

  Vesala, T ^a   Kljun, N ^b   Rannik, Ü ^a   Rinne, J ^a   Sogachev, A ^a   Markkanen, T ^a,c   Sabelfeld, K ^d,e   Foken, Th ^c   Leclerc, M Y ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollutants; Atmospheric turbulence; Footprint; Source area; Turbulent flux

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS; FOOTPRINT MODELS; TURBULENT FLUX;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOTPRINT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EDDY COVARIANCE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; VELOCITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 41149113487     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.070     Document Type: Article

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