Mesoscale atmospheric flow-field simulations for air quality modeling over complex terrain region of Ranchi in eastern India using WRF

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 315-328

  Madala, Srikanth ^a   Satyanarayana, A N V ^a   Srinivas, C V ^b   Kumar, Manoj ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JHARKHAND   (India)

Author keywords

ARW model; Complex terrain; FLEXPART; Planetary boundary layer

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERROR STATISTICS; FLOW FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS;

AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION; COMPLEX TERRAINS; FLEXPART; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; INDIA; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; WINTER;

INDIA; JHARKHAND; RANCHI;

EID: 84923627162     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.02.059     Document Type: Article

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