Atmospheric pollutant dispersion over complex terrain: Challenges and needs for improving air quality measurements and modeling

L Giovannini, E Ferrero, T Karl, MW Rotach, C Staquet… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pollutant dispersion processes over complex terrain are much more complicated than over
flat areas, as they are affected by atmospheric interactions with the orography at different …

Turbulence and air exchange in a two-dimensional urban street canyon between gable roof buildings

M Garau, MG Badas, S Ferrari, A Seoni… - Boundary-Layer …, 2018 - Springer
We experimentally investigate the effect of a typical building covering: the gable roof, on the
flow and air exchange in urban canyons. In general, the morphology of the urban canopy is …

Water-channel study of flow and turbulence past a two-dimensional array of obstacles

A Di Bernardino, P Monti, G Leuzzi… - Boundary-Layer …, 2015 - Springer
A neutral boundary layer was generated in the laboratory to analyze the mean velocity field
and the turbulence field within and above an array of two-dimensional obstacles simulating …

Lagrangian stochastic models for turbulent dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer

O Kurbanmuradov, K Sabelfeld - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2000 - Springer
A one-particle three-dimensional stochastic Lagrangian model fortransport of particles in a
horizontally-homogeneous atmosphericsurface layer with arbitrary one-point probability …

Rotation of trajectories in Lagrangian stochastic models of turbulent dispersion

BL Sawford - Boundary-layer meteorology, 1999 - Springer
We present a new measure for the rotation of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence that
simplifies and generalises that suggested by Wilson and Flesch (Boundary-Layer Meteorol …

Water-channel estimation of Eulerian and Lagrangian time scales of the turbulence in idealized two-dimensional urban canopies

A Di Bernardino, P Monti, G Leuzzi… - Boundary-Layer …, 2017 - Springer
Lagrangian and Eulerian statistics are obtained from a water-channel experiment of an
idealized two-dimensional urban canopy flow in neutral conditions. The objective is to …

Particle trajectory simulation of dispersion around a building

G Leuzzi, P Monti - Atmospheric Environment, 1998 - Elsevier
Lagrangian stochastic (LS) models have shown to be a powerful technique to calculate
pollutant dispersion in complex flows. In this work, a three-dimensional LS model of …

Lagrangian models of dispersion in marine environment

P Monti, G Leuzzi - Environmental fluid mechanics, 2010 - Springer
Turbulent dispersion can be studied successfully by using Lagrangian particle models. In
general, the prediction of correct concentration fields is a complex issue when the turbulent …

Trajectory curvature as a selection criterion for valid Lagrangian stochastic dispersion models

JD Wilson, TK Flesch - Boundary-layer meteorology, 1997 - Springer
Among well-mixed multi-dimensional Lagrangian stochastic (LS) dispersion models, we
observe that those in poorest agreement with observations produce 'spiralling …

A numerical study of mesoscale airflow and dispersion over coastal complex terrain

P Monti, G Leuzzi - International journal of environment and …, 2005 - inderscienceonline.com
A computational system composed of a three dimensional (3D) mesoscale model and a
Lagrangian stochastic model is applied to forecast the boundary layer dynamics and Carbon …