Input data requirements for Lagrangian trajectory models

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1051-1058

  Bowman, Kenneth P ^a   Lin, John C ^b   Stohl, Andreas ^c   Draxler, Roland ^d   Konopka, Paul ^e   Andrews, Arlyn ^f   Brunner, Dominik ^g  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Empa Materials and Science   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION MODELS; KINEMATIC EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN DISPERSION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY MODELS; TURBULENCE PARAMETERS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; KINEMATICS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 84880871365     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00076.1     Document Type: Article

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