In-Street Wind Direction Variability in the Vicinity of a Busy Intersection in Central London

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-513

  Balogun, Ahmed A ^a,g   Tomlin, Alison S ^a   Wood, Curtis R ^b   Barlow, Janet F ^b   Belcher, Stephen E ^b   Smalley, Robert J ^a,c   Lingard, Justin J N ^a   Arnold, Sam J ^d   Dobre, Adrian ^b   Robins, Alan G ^e   Martin, Damien ^f   Shallcross, Dudley E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

DAPPLE field campaign; Dispersion; Flow bifurcation; Flow channelling; Recirculation; Urban intersection

Indexed keywords

FIELD CAMPAIGN; FLOW BIFURCATION; FLOW CHANNELLING; RECIRCULATIONS; URBAN INTERSECTIONS;

AIR QUALITY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; MIXED CONVECTION; ROADS AND STREETS; ROOFS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ANEMOMETER; BIFURCATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; STREET CANYON; URBAN AREA; WIND DIRECTION;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77955709490     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9515-y     Document Type: Article

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