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Lattice wind description and characterization of Mexico city local wind events in the 2001 2006 period
Autor
Susana Carreón-Sierra
Telma Castro
Ana Teresa Celada_Murillo
Alejandro Salcido
teodoro georgiadis
Institución
Resumen
Urban transformation and expansion in Mexico City continuously affect its urban morphology, and therefore the modes of wind circulation inside it and their occurrence probabilities. Knowledge on these topics is an important issue for urban planning and for other urban studies, such as air quality assessment. In this paper, using a lattice wind model at a meso-β scale, we develop a simple description and characterization of Mexico City local wind events that occurred during the period 2001 2006, including an estimation of the occurrence probabilities. This region was modeled as a 2D lattice domain of identical cells, and wind conditions in each cell were described by four wind attributes: the horizontal velocity components, divergence, and vorticity.