Sensitivity of atmospheric dispersion simulations by HYSPLIT to the meteorological predictions from a meso-scale model

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 367-387

  Challa, Venkata Srinivas ^a   Indrcanti, Jayakumar ^a   Baham, Julius M ^a   Patrick, Chuck ^a   Rabarison, Monika K ^a   Young, John H ^a   Hughes, Robert ^a   Swanier, Shelton J ^a   Hardy, Mark G ^a   Yerramilli, Anjaneyulu ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersion; HYSPLIT; Meso scale; Sensitivity; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; POINT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53349096416     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9098-z     Document Type: Article

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