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Main Title Analysis of Diffusion Field Experiments.
Author Briggs, G. A. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Year Published 1987
Report Number EPA/600/D-87/198;
Stock Number PB87-203279
Additional Subjects Atmospheric diffusion ; Dispersing ; Meteorological data ; Boundary layer ; Field tests ; Mathematical models ; Air pollution ; Plumes ; Surface layer ; Convective flow
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NTIS  PB87-203279 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The report describes general theoretical frameworks for the ordering of diffusion field data in terms of meteorological measurements. The three methods described are surface-layer (Monin-Obukhov) similarity, convective scaling, and statistical theory using wind fluctuations. Early analyses of historic field experiments are reinterpreted in terms of these frameworks and many examples of analyses using these three methods are cited from the literature. The strengths and limitations of each method are discussed at length and the most effective methods are identified according to stability, height of source, and vertical or lateral diffusion.