Critical considerations and improvements to the short-time gaussian plume models

  • Michel M. Benarie
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Abstract

Chapter 3 contains a selection of the most typical short-time plume and sector models. Many papers could be cited which mainly describe the local implementation of one of these models without basically changing the inferences to be drawn from chapter 3. A fairly representative but by no means exhaustive list of papers with the application, and in some cases with the validation, of these models is as follows: Milford et al. (1971 a, b), Moriguchi (1971), Ping (1972), Yoshida et al. (1972), Legrand (1973), Matsuzaki et al. (1973), Mills and Reeves (1973), Murase et al. (1973), Nakano et al. (1973), Sadelski (1973), Shiozawa et al. (1973), Shoda et al. (1973), Kawashima et al. (1976), Gibson and Peters (1977).

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Wind Speed Street Canyon North Atlantic Treaty Organ Plume Rise Carbon Monoxide Concentration 
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