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The three-phase plume model (for predicting plume rise) is linked to the ‘Gaussian’ plume model (for predicting dispersion from a non-buoyant source) by demonstration that the entrainment velocity associated with the third phase of the plume rise is of identical functional form to that derived for Fickian diffusion.
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Henderson-Sellers, B. Plume rise and Fickian diffusion models. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 19, 495–499 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122349
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