Estimating the height of the nocturnal urban boundary layer for dispersion applications

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 611-623

  Pournazeri, Sam ^a   Venkatram, Akula ^a   Princevac, Marko ^a   Tan, Si ^a   Schulte, Nico ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction velocity; Stable boundary layer height; Urban dispersion; Urban micrometeorology

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; CALIFORNIA; DATA SETS; FIELD STUDIES; FRICTION VELOCITY; PROGNOSTIC MODEL; SONIC ANEMOMETER; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE FRICTION VELOCITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; URBAN AREAS; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN DISPERSION; URBAN MICROMETEOROLOGY; WIND SPEED;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSIONS; FRICTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

ESTIMATION;

ANEMOMETER; DATA SET; DISPERSION; FRICTION; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBAN AREA; WIND VELOCITY;

ANEMOMETER; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRICTION; HEIGHT; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURFACE MICROMETEOROLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WIND;

CALIFORNIA; RIVERSIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860221949     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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