The COST 715 Expert Meeting (Workshop): "Mixing height and inversions in urban areas"
Toulouse, France, 3-4 October 2001

Last update:
April 10th 2003

The expert meeting was organized jointly by the Working Groups 2 and 3.

Programme is here.

Proceedings of the Workshop: Piringer, M. and Kukkonen, J. (eds.) 2002 "Mixing height and inversions in urban areas", Proceedings of the workshop 3 and 4 October 2001, Toulouse, France. COST Action 715, EUR 20451, European Commission, Brussels, 113 pp.

Presentations:

• The mixing height in urban areas -a rewiev.
  Alexander Baklanov

• A recommendation for turbulence parametrisation within German guidelines for the calculation of dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer -Improvements and Remaining Problems
  Report of VDI-Working Group (Martens et al.)
  Presentation in ppt-form.
  Additional text of presentation in pdf-form.
  
  

Validation of experiments
Martens et al.
Presentation in ppt-form
Additional text of presentation in pdf-form.

• BUBBLE -Current status of the experiment and planned investigation/evaluation of the mixing height
  M. Rotach, V. Mitev, R. Vogt
  Presentation in pdf-form.

• Influence of sea breeze and relief on the mixing height during ESCOMPTE in the Marseille area.
  F. Said

• Mixing heights calculations by MM5 and simple pre-processors for atmospheric dispersion modelling
  M. Tombrou, A. Dandou, E. Akylas, D. Boucouvala Presentation in ppt-form.
  

• Analysis and evaluation of air pollution episodes in European cities
  Ranjeet S. Sokhi , Lakhu Luhana, Jaakko Kukkonen, Erik Berge, Leiv Håvard Slørdal, Sandro Finardi
  Presentation in ppt-form.
  

• Simulations of wintertime inversions in Northern European cities by use of NWP-models.
  Erik Berge , Morten Ø. Køltzow, Ari Karppinen, Jaakko Kukkonen, Leiv Håvard Slørdal
  Presentation in ppt-form.
  Figures in pdf-form.

• Evaluation of inversions and their relation to air pollution episodes in Helsinki.
  Ari Karppinen
  Presentation in ppt-form.

• Analysis of air pollution episodes driven by temperature inversion in the sub-Alpine Italian region.
  Sandro Finardi
  Presentation in ppt-form: Slides 1-5
  Slide 6
  Slide 7
  Slide 8
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  Slides 13-14