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In recent years, the air quality modelling field has seen the development of Lagrangian particle dispersion models driven by wind and turbulence predictions from three-dimensional mesoscale models. The Lagrangian models are based on a Langevin equation for the velocity of a fluid particle, and can take a number of different forms, depending mainly on the type of turbulence being simulated. We briefly review these forms, concentrating on the theoretically correct version for simulating dispersion in a convective boundary layer (CBL).
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Physick, W., Hurley, P. (1994). A Fast Lagrangian Particle Model for Use with Three-Dimensional Mesoscale Models. In: Gryning, SE., Millán, M.M. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application X. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1817-4_26
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