Simulating urban flow and dispersion in Beijing by coupling a CFD model with the WRF model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1663-1678

  Miao, Yucong ^a   Liu, Shuhua ^a   Chen, Bicheng ^a   Zhang, Bihui ^a,b   Wang, Shu ^a   Li, Shuyan ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

CFD model; dispersion; OpenFOAM; WRF model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886924133     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2234-9     Document Type: Article

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