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Urban Scale Models

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Urban Air Pollution — European Aspects

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The atmospheric processes governing the conditions in urban areas take place on scales between mesoscale and microscale. Although the main interest bears primarily on the lowest part of the atmosphere on scales as small as 50 m, the urban scale processes cannot in general be considered as isolated microscale processes. This is mainly because the city structures generate motions at scales as large as the whole city area itself. Recently Thunis and Bornstein (1996) defined a new scale called meso-δ scale (200 m to 2 km), which fits the scales of the urban atmospheric boundary layer.

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Mestayer, P.G. (1998). Urban Scale Models. In: Fenger, J., Hertel, O., Palmgren, F. (eds) Urban Air Pollution — European Aspects. Environmental Pollution, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9080-8_11

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