Trapping effect of a calm zone by lee side-internal gravity waves and cyclonic winds on sudden high concentrations of particulate matters combined with the yellow dusts from Gobi desert in the Korean eastern coast

Disaster Advances

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 101-111

  Hyo, Choi ^a  

^a Gangneung Wonju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Internal gravity waves; NOAA HYSPLIT model; Particulate matter; WRF 3.3 model; Yellow Dust period

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYCLONE; DUST; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; PARTICULATE MATTER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

CHINA; GOBI DESERT; KANGNUNG; KANGWON; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84886004660     PISSN: 0974262X     EISSN: 22784543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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