Subgrid-scale treatment for major point sources in an Eulerian model: A sensitivity study on the European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) and chernobyl cases

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Korsakissok, Irène ^a   Mallet, Vivien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE L'OUEST   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; PARAMETERIZATION;

AIR QUALITY MODELING; APRIORI; CHERNOBYL; COARSE GRID; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONTINENTAL SCALE; EULERIAN; EULERIAN MODELS; EUROPEAN TRACER EXPERIMENTS; FINE RESOLUTION; GAUSSIAN DISPERSIONS; GAUSSIAN PUFF MODEL; GAUSSIANS; GRID RESOLUTION; INJECTION METHOD; INJECTION TIME; LOCAL SCALE; MODEL SENSITIVITY; ON-LINE COUPLING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PASSIVE TRACERS; PLUME-IN-GRID; POINT SOURCES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; VERTICAL DIFFUSION;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODEL TEST; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

CHERNOBYL; KIEV [UKRAINE]; UKRAINE;

NEPTUNIA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 76849084867     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012734     Document Type: Article

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