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Main Title Green River Air Quality Model Development. MELSAR - A Mesoscale Air Quality Model for Complex Terrain. Volume 1. Overview, Technical Description and User's Guide.
Author Allwine, K. J. ; Whiteman, C. D. ;
CORP Author Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.;Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Year Published 1985
Report Number PNL-5460-VOL-1; EPA/600/8-85/017A;
Stock Number PB85-247211
Additional Subjects Mathematical models ; Meteorology ; Air pollution ; Sampling ; Concentration(Composition) ; Green River ; Brush Creek Valley ; Colorado ; Air quality ; Tracer techniques
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NTIS  PB85-247211 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
MELSAR, a mesoscale air quality model, was developed for predicting air pollutant concentrations resulting from releases from multiple sources. The model is a Lagrangian puff model for application in complex terrain, principally at long source-to-receptor transport distances (tens to hundreds of kilometers) and short pollutant averaging times (1 to 24 hr). Terrain influences are treated explicitly by using a three-dimensional mass-consistent flow model, accounting for the influences of terrain roughness on diffusion, using terrain-following plume trajectories with optional corrections for the plume ascending hills, and using a parameterized treatment of pollutant sources located in valleys. The model handles releases from both point and area sources and makes the conservative assumption that the pollutants released are inert and nondepositing. MELSAR is developed for application in a region covering western Colorado, eastern Utah, and southern Wyoming.