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Wind Climate in Cities

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Risk of Wind Effects in Cities
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    Chapter 2 Urban Climates and Urban Climate Modelling: An Introduction
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    Chapter 3 Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Parameterization
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    Chapter 4 Scaling for Convective Boundary Layers
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    Chapter 5 The Heat Island of the Urban Boundary Layer: Characteristics, Causes and Effects
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    Chapter 6 Atmospheric Flow through Groups of Buildings and Dispersion from Localised Sources
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    Chapter 7 Physical Modelling of Atmospheric Dispersion in Complex Settings
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    Chapter 8 Analysis of Meteorological Data and Main Problems Related to the Determination of Building Exposure
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    Chapter 9 Local Wind Pressures for Rectangular Buildings in Turbulent Boundary Layers
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    Chapter 10 The Response of Slender Structures to Wind
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    Chapter 11 Wind Loads on Structures from Eurocode 1, ENV 1991-2-3
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    Chapter 12 Interference Effects on Flexible Buildings and Structures
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    Chapter 13 Wind-Induced Response of Buildings Arranged in a Group
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    Chapter 14 The Influence of Surroundings on Pressure Distributions around Buildings
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    Chapter 15 Winds in Cities: Effects on Pedestrians and the Dispersion of Ground Level Pollutants
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    Chapter 16 Damage to Buildings by Storms in Urban Areas
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    Chapter 17 Urban Climates and Air Pollution in Small Swiss Cities
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    Chapter 18 Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion over Urban Areas
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    Chapter 19 A Laboratory Simulation of Urban Heat-Island-Induced Circulation in a Stratified Environment
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    Chapter 20 Wind Tunnel Modelling of Convective Boundary Layers
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    Chapter 21 Concentration Fluctuations in Plumes: Observations and Models
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    Chapter 22 Point Sources in Urban Areas: Modelling of Neutral Gas Clouds with Semi-empirical Models
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    Chapter 23 Convective Heat Losses from Buildings
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    Chapter 24 Traffic Induced Pollution: Diffusion in the Neighbourhood of Tunnels and Streets
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    Chapter 25 Traffic Induced Pollution: How to Evaluate Wind Tunnel Data for Municipal Dicision Makers
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    Chapter 26 Modelling of Motor Vehicle Immissions in a Street System by Combination of Lagrange Models and Surface Wind Field Simulation in Complex City Structures
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    Chapter 27 Accidental Releases of Heavy Gases in Urban Areas
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    Chapter 28 Dense Gas Dispersion in Complex Settings: Part 1 — The Effect of Obstacles
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    Chapter 29 Dense Gas Dispersion in Complex Settings: Part 2 — The Effect of Topography
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    Chapter 30 Introduction to the Numerical Simulation Approaches in Wind Engineering
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    Chapter 31 Simulation of Flow Past Buildings with Statistical Turbulence Models
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    Chapter 32 Large-Eddy-Simulation of the Three-Dimensional Flow around Buildings
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    Chapter 33 Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Diffusion in Cities
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    Chapter 34 Applications of the RAMS Numerical Model to Dispersion over Urban Areas
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    Chapter 35 Simulating the Effects of Stable Stratification on Flow and Dispersion around a Cubical Building
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    Chapter 36 Numerical Simulation of Steep Terrain Influences on Flow Patterns at the Isle of Helgoland
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    Chapter 37 Reduction of Horizontal Wind Speed in a Boundary Layer with Obstacles
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    Chapter 38 Dependence of Scaling for a Convective Atmospheric Surface Layer on Size of Turbulent Disturbances
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    Chapter 39 Wind Research Climate at Texas Tech University — An Overview
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    Chapter 40 Automatic Linking of Three-Dimensional Models with Different Grid Granularity
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    Chapter 41 An IBL Experiment over Athens Urban Area
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    Chapter 42 Wind Resistance Categorization of Buildings
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    Chapter 43 Numerical Experiments on Urban Heat Island Intensity
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    Chapter 44 PBL Observations and Measurements in the Area of Rome
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Title
Wind Climate in Cities
Published by
Springer Netherlands, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3686-2
ISBNs
978-9-04-814485-3, 978-9-40-173686-2
Editors

Cermak, Jack E., Davenport, Alan G., Plate, Erich J., Viegas, Domingos X.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 1%
Iceland 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 75 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 23%
Student > Master 16 21%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 19 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 23 29%
Environmental Science 16 21%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Design 3 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 4%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 25 32%