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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Urban Air Quality: Meteorological Processes

Authors : David Carruthers, Silvana Di Sabatino, Julian Hunt

Published in: Air Pollution Sources, Statistics and Health Effects

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Building and street scales
Scales of buildings or streets; tens to hundreds of meters.
Fast approximate model (FAM)
A model which uses approximations and parameterizations of the fine scale flow to speed up model run times and reduce complexity.
Fully computational model (FCM)
A model which explicitly represents flow and turbulence around buildings.
Mesoscale
Scale of weather systems smaller than synoptic scale but larger than microscale or urban scale; tens to hundreds of kilometers.
Neighborhood scale
Scale typical of groups of buildings or streets; hundreds of meters to a few kilometers.
Porosity
The volume fraction of air between buildings and therefore a measure of building density.
Urban air quality
A general term representing concentrations of pollutants in an urban area. Good air quality corresponds to low concentrations of pollutants.
Urban meteorology
Meteorology within an urban area; the urban environment significantly affects mean flow turbulence and temperature.
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Metadata
Title
Urban Air Quality: Meteorological Processes
Authors
David Carruthers
Silvana Di Sabatino
Julian Hunt
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer US
Book
Air Pollution Sources, Statistics and Health Effects

Print ISBN: 978-1-0716-0595-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-0716-0596-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0596-7_427