Modelling Street-Scale Flow and Dispersion in Realistic Winds-Towards Coupling with Mesoscale Meteorological Models

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-75

  Xie, Zheng Tong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Neighbourhood scale; Urban dispersion; Wind variation

Indexed keywords

FIELD MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING MODELS; GLOUCESTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; NEIGHBOURHOOD SCALE; ON FLOW; SCALAR FIELDS; UNIFIED MODEL; URBAN DISPERSION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHER RESEARCH; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND VARIATION; WINDWARD SURFACE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROADS AND STREETS;

DISPERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80052292175     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9629-x     Document Type: Article

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