Evaluation of a neighbourhood scale, street network dispersion model through comparison with wind tunnel data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-124

  Carpentieri, Matteo ^a   Salizzoni, Pietro ^b   Robins, Alan ^a   Soulhac, Lionel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersion model; Model validation; Neighbourhood scale; Street canyon intersection; Urban areas; Wind tunnel experiments

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION MODELS; MODEL VALIDATION; NEIGHBOURHOOD; STREET CANYON; URBAN AREAS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS;

WIND TUNNELS;

DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STREET CANYON; URBAN POLLUTION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84861953403     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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