Rex Britter

TL;DR: In this article, a grid is towed horizontally along a large tank filled first with water and then with a stably stratified saline solution, and turbulent velocity components perpendicular to the mean motion are measured by a Taylor diffusion probe and are found to be unaffected by the stable stratification over distances measured from 5 to 47 mesh lengths (M) downstream, and over a range of Froude number U/NM of ∞ and 8·5 to 0·5, U being the velocity and N the buoyancy frequency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a European initiative (COST 732) which was launched 2005 with the purpose of establishing a generally accepted procedure for the improvement and quality assurance of micro-scale meteorological models that are applied for predicting flow and transport processes in urban or industrial environments.

TL;DR: In this article, a scheme that couples a detailed building energy model, EnergyPlus, and an urban canopy model, the Town Energy Balance (TEB), is presented, which allows a broader analysis of the two-way interactions between the energy performance of buildings and the urban climate around the buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, a taxi fleet of over 15,000 vehicles was analyzed with the aim of predicting air pollution emissions for Singapore, and the results showed that highly localized areas of elevated emissions levels were identified, with a spatio-temporal precision not possible with previously used methods for estimating emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used seven-equation Reynolds stress turbulence modelling (RSM) with a high-resolution mesh to estimate the exchange velocities at the top of a canopy.