Turbulent Transfer Between Street Canyons and the Overlying Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-414

  Salizzoni, Pietro ^a   Marro, Massimo ^a   Soulhac, Lionel ^a   Grosjean, Nathalie ^a   Perkins, Richard J ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Momentum transfer; Shear layer flow; Street canyon; Urban canopy

Indexed keywords

GRID-LIKE; HOT-WIRE ANEMOMETRY; MEAN FLOW; MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; OUTER FLOW; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SHEAR LAYER; SHEAR-LAYER FLOW; SPARSE GEOMETRY; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; TURBULENT TRANSFER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CAVITIES; URBAN CANOPIES; VELOCITY SCALE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; GEOMETRY; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CANOPY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SHEAR FLOW; STREET CANYON; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA;

EID: 80855138144     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9641-1     Document Type: Article

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