Simulating Dispersion in the Evening-Transition Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 389-407

  Taylor, Alexander C ^a   Beare, Robert J ^a   Thomson, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Dispersion; Evening transition; Lagrangian stochastic model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); HEAT FLUX; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POLLUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; EVENING TRANSITION; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELING; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATIFICATION EFFECTS; TRANSITION BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; HEAT FLUX; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PLUME; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 85027957021     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9960-0     Document Type: Article

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