Source inversion for contaminant plume dispersionin urban environments using building-resolving simulations

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1533-1572

  Chow, Fotini Katopodes ^a   Kosović, Branko ^b   Chan, Stevens ^b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INFERENCE ENGINES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LOCATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); SECURITY OF DATA; STOCHASTIC MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

APPLICATIONS.; ATMOSPHERIC RELEASES; BAYESIAN INFERENCES; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCES; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CONTAMINANT DISPERSIONS; CONTAMINANT PLUMES; DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; FLOW CONDITIONS; FORWARD MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INVERSION PROCEDURES; ISOLATED BUILDINGS; JOINT URBAN 2003; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO; OBSERVED DATUMS; OKLAHOMA; OKLAHOMA CITIES; PLUME SOURCES; POINT MEASUREMENTS; REACTIVE FLOWS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RELEASE RATES; SHAPE AND SIZES; SOURCE INVERSIONS; SOURCE LOCATIONS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; STOCHASTIC METHODOLOGIES; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING METHODS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN GEOMETRIES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STOCHASTICITY; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 57649148635     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1733.1     Document Type: Article

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