Air pollution retention within a complex of urban street canyons: A two-city comparison

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-32

  Richmond Bryant, Jennifer ^a   Reff, Adam ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Dispersion; Epidemiology; Street canyon; Urban

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS; FLUID PROPERTY; FREE-STREAM; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; H-BASED; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; JOINT URBAN 2003; MANHATTANS; MATRIX; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICRO-SCALES; MODEL ESTIMATES; NONDIMENSIONAL; OKLAHOMA CITY; RESIDENCE TIME; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SQUARE ROOTS; STREET CANYON; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; URBAN; URBAN AIR; URBAN BUILDINGS; URBAN SITE; URBAN STREET CANYON; WIND SPEED;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DISPERSION (WAVES); EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SULFUR; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TURBULENCE;

AIR;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DISPERSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREET CANYON; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; KINETICS; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREET CANYON; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

KANSAS; MANHATTAN; OKLAHOMA [OKLAHOMA (STT)]; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856554703     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.036     Document Type: Article

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