Construction of digital elevation models for a southern European city and a comparative morphological analysis with respect to Northern European and North American cities

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1377-1396

  di Sabatino, Silvana ^a   Leo, Laura S ^a   Cataldo, Rosella ^a   Ratti, Carlo ^b   Britter, Rex E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; DISPERSIONS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SURVEYING;

BUILDING CONFIGURATION; BUILDING GEOMETRY; CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPERSION MODELS; DYNAMICAL PARAMETERS; FRONTAL AREAS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LOW COSTS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICAN; PACKING DENSITY; SENSITIVITY TESTS; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN FLOW;

BUILDINGS;

AIRFLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84984537589     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2117.1     Document Type: Article

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