Evaluation of an atmospheric boundary layer model used for air pollution studies

A three-dimensional mesoscale meteorological model was developed based on s econd-moment closure equations that were solved by the finite-element metho d. This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the model under hat terra in and horizontally homogeneous atmospheric boundary layer conditions; The one-dimensional version of this model was tested against field measurements , a water tank experiment, and another numerical model. It showed several i nteresting behaviors of the atmospheric boundary layer under stable and uns table flows that are of primary interest for environmental studies.