Evaluating a building-averaged urban surface scheme in an operational mesoscale model for flow and dispersion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-58

  Luhar, Ashok K ^a   Thatcher, Marcus ^a   Hurley, Peter J ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution dispersion; BUBBLE data; Mesoscale modelling; TAPM model; Town energy balance; Turbulent fluxes; Urban boundary layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894121310     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.01.059     Document Type: Article

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