Impact of coupling a microscale computational fluid dynamics model with a mesoscale model on urban scale contaminant transport and dispersion

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 656-664

  Tewari, Mukul ^a   Kusaka, Hiroyuki ^b   Chen, Fei ^a   Coirier, William J ^c   Kim, Sura ^c   Wyszogrodzki, Andrzej A ^a   Warner, Thomas T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD model; Transport and dispersion; WRF model

Indexed keywords

CFD MODEL; CFD MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DOWN-SCALING; FIELD DATA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; LOWER BOUNDARY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MICRO-SCALES; MODELING ACCURACY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; QUASI-STEADY; TIME VARYING; TRACER GAS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN MODEL; URBAN SCALE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND FIELD; WRF MODEL;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 77952547604     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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