Evaluation of urban scale contaminant transport and dispersion modeling using loosely coupled CFD and mesoscale models

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Coirier, William J ^a   Kim, Sura ^a   Chen, Fei ^b   Tewari, Mukul ^b  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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