Concentration Fluctuations in Smoke Plumes Released Near the Ground

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-372

  Jorgensen H E ^a   Mikkelsen, T ^a   Pecseli H L ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Concentration fluctuations; Lidar scattering techniques; Smoke diffusion experiments

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; OPTICAL RADAR; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATION; GROUND CONCENTRATIONS; LOWEST-ORDER MOMENTS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SCATTERING TECHNIQUES; SMOKE DIFFUSION;

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SKEWNESS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 78449290597     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9532-x     Document Type: Article

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