Comparisons of JU2003 observations with four diagnostic urban wind flow and Lagrangian particle dispersion models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 4073-4081

  Hanna, Steven ^a   White, John ^b   Trolier, James ^c   Vernot, Rebecca ^c   Brown, Michael ^d   Gowardhan, Akshay ^d   Kaplan, Hadassah ^e   Alexander, Yehuda ^e   Moussafir, Jacques ^f   Wang, Yansen ^g   Williamson, Chatt ^g   Hannan, John ^h   Hendrick, Elizabeth ⁱ  

^a HANNA CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^b US Army Test and Evaluation Command   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e IIBR   (Israel)

^f ARIA TECHNOLOGIES   (France)

^g U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY   (United States)

ⁱ Epsilon Assoc   (United States)

Author keywords

JU2003; Urban dispersion models; Urban wind flow

Indexed keywords

ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORIES; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; BUILDING GEOMETRY; DISPERSION MODELS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRID SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; JOINT URBAN 2003; JU2003; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; MEAN-WINDS; PARAMETERIZED; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RAPID RESPONSE; RMS ERRORS; STREET CANYON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) BUILDINGS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TURBULENT VELOCITY; URBAN AREAS; URBAN DISPERSION MODELS; URBAN WIND FLOW; WIND FIELD; WIND FLOW; WIND PROFILES; WIND SPEED; WIND-FLOW MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; PARAMETERIZATION; STREET CANYON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMESCALE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; URBAN WIND FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX MOTION; WIND;

ARIA;

EID: 79959508140     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.058     Document Type: Article

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