Using measurements in urban areas to estimate turbulent velocities for modeling dispersion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3833-3841

  Venkatram, Akula ^a   Princevac, Marko ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction velocity; Monin Obukhov similarity; Stable boundary layer; Standard deviation of turbulent velocities; Unstable boundary layer; VTMX; Wilmington

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRICTION VELOCITY; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STANDARD DEVIATION OF TURBULENT VELOCITIES; UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT FLUX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; WIND;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WILMINGTON;

EID: 43049145650     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.061     Document Type: Article

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