Temporal and spatial aspects of velocity variance in the urban surface roughness layer

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 668-681

  Hicks, Bruce B ^a   Novakovskaia, Elena ^b   Dobosy, Ronald J ^c   Pendergrass III, William R ^c   Callahan, William J ^b  

^a Metcorps   (United States)

^b Earth Networks Inc   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Dispersion; In situ atmospheric observations; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; SITU ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; DISPERSION (WAVES); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

VELOCITY;

AIR QUALITY; CONVECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84875403363     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0266.1     Document Type: Article

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