Dispersion experiments in central London: The 2007 DAPPLE project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 955-969

  Wood, Curtis R ^a   Arnold, Samantha J ^e   Balogun, Ahmed A ^b   Barlow, Janet F ^a   Belcher, Stephen E ^a   Britter, Rex E ^g   Cheng, Hong ^d   Dobre, Adrian ^a   Lingard, Justin J N ^b   Martin, Damien ^f   Neophytou, Marina K ^h   Petersson, Fredrik K ^f   Robins, Alan G ^c   Schallcross, Dudley E ^f   Smalley, Robert J ^b   Tate, James E ^b   Tomlin, Alison S ^b   White, Iain R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NORTH AMERICAN; RECENT PROGRESS; STREET NETWORK; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN STREETS; WIND TUNNEL MODELING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ROADS AND STREETS; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 68949219593     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2638.1     Document Type: Article

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