Performance of Steady-State Dispersion Models Under Low Wind-Speed Conditions

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-491

  Qian, Wenjun ^a   Venkatram, Akula ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

AERMOD; Low wind speed; Steady state dispersion models; Wind meandering

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DISPERSIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPEED; WIND;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AERMOD; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETIES; DISPERSION MODELS; GAUSSIAN PLUME MODELS; LOW WIND SPEED; LOW WIND SPEED CONDITION; SURFACE FRICTION VELOCITY;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79951788415     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9565-1     Document Type: Article

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