Wind Climate in Cities

The Risk of Wind Effects in Cities.- Urban Climates and Urban Climate Modelling: An Introduction.- Atmospheric Boundary Layer and its Parameterization.- Scaling for Convective Boundary Layers.- The Heat Island of the Urban Boundary Layer: Characteristics, Causes and Effects.- Atmospheric Flow through Groups of Buildings and Dispersion from Localised Sources.- Physical Modelling of Atmospheric Dispersion in Complex Settings.- Analysis of Meteorological Data and Main Problems Related to the Determination of Building Exposure.- Local Wind Pressures for Rectangular Buildings in Turbulent Boundary Layers.- The Response of Slender Structures to Wind.- Wind Loads on Structures from EUROCODE 1, ENV 1991-2-3.- Interference Effects on Flexible Buildings and Structures.- Wind-induced Response of Buildings Arranged in a Group.- The Influence of Surroundings on Pressure Distributions around Buildings.- Wind in Cities: Effects on Pedestrians and the Dispersion of Ground Level Pollutants.- Damage to Buildings by Storms in Urban Areas.- Urban Climates and Air Pollution in Small Swiss Cities.- Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion over Urban Areas.- A Laboratory Simulation of Urban Heat — Island — Induced Circulation in a Stratified Environment.- Wind Tunnel Modelling of Convective Boundary Layers.- Concentration Fluctuations in Plumes: Observations and Models.- Point Sources in Urban Areas: Modelling of Neutral Gas Clouds with Semi-empirical Models.- Convective Heat Losses from Buildings.- Traffic Induced Pollution: Diffusion in the Neighbourhood of Tunnels and Streets.- Traffic Induced Pollution: How to Evaluate Wind Tunnel Data for Municipal Decision Makers.- Modelling of Motor Vehicle Immissions in a Street System by Combination of Lagrange Models and Surface Wind FieldSimulation in Complex City Structures.- Accidental Releases of Heavy Gases in Urban Areas.- Dense Gas Dispersion in Complex Settings: Part 1 — The Effect of Obstacles.- Dense Gas Dispersion in Complex Settings: Part 2 — The Effect of Topography.- to the Numerical Simulation Approaches in Wind Engineering.- Simulation of Flow past Buildings with Statistical Turbulence Models.- Large-Eddy-Simulation of the Three-dimensional Flow around Buildings.- Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Diffusion in Cities.- Application of the RAMS Numerical Model to Dispersion over Urban Areas.- Simulating the Effects of Stable Stratification on Flow and Dispersion around a Cubical Building.- Numerical Simulation of Steep Terrain Influences on Flow Patterns at the Isle of Helgoland.- Reduction of Horizontal Wind Speed in a Boundary Layer with Obstacles.- Dependence of Scaling for a Convective Atmospheric Surface Layer on Size of Turbulent Disturbances.- Wind Research Climate at Texas Tech University — An Overview.- Automatic Linking of Three-dimensional Models with Different Grid Granularity.- An IBL Experiment over Athens Urban Area.- Wind Resistance Categorization of Buildings.- Numerical Experiments on Urban Heat-Island Intensity.- PBL Observations and Measurements in the Area of Rome.- List of Contributors.