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Main Title Estimating Surface Concentrations from an Elevated, Buoyant Plume in a Limited-Mixed Convective Boundary Layer.
Author Pierce, T. E. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA/600/D-86/211;
Stock Number PB87-100640
Additional Subjects Plumes ; Atmospheric diffusion ; Atmospheric chemistry ; Convective boundary
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NTIS  PB87-100640 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
In the past decade, recent advances have suggested that convective scaling can be used to parameterize diffusion from a plume in the convective boundary layer (CBL). New methods such as convective scaling need to be explored because the traditionally used Gaussian plume model does an especially poor job in predicting diffusion from an elevated, buoyant plume in the CBL. Briggs (1985) introduced a formula based on convective scaling for estimating surface concentrations from elevated, buoyant plumes the limited-mixed CBL. Briggs strongly recommended that the formula be tested against additional field data. Diffusion data from the Kincaid field experiment (Sponsored by Electric Power Research Institute) was used in the analysis. The results show that the Briggs' formula out performs a Gaussian plume model.