Idealised simulations of daytime pollution transport in a steep valley and its sensitivity to thermal stratification and surface albedo

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 327-351

  Lehner, M ^a,b   Gohm, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabatic winds; Cross valley winds; Numerical modelling; Tracer transport

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; INHOMOGENEITIES; MASS CONTINUITY; MASS FLUX; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; SURFACE ALBEDO; TRACER TRANSPORT; VALLEY WINDS; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

LANDFORMS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL POLLUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INHOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TRACER; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRIA; INN VALLEY;

EID: 76649090275     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9442-y     Document Type: Article

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