Influence of urban morphometric modification on regional boundary-layer dynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2729-2747

  Chan, Allen ^a   Fung, Jimmy C H ^a   Lau, Alexis K H ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGY; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; URBAN CANOPY PARAMETERIZATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ADVECTION; AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84882409375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50263     Document Type: Article

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