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Main Title User-Friendly Screening Model for Point-Source Impact Assessment.
Author Turner, D. B. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA/600/D-86/062;
Stock Number PB86-176369
Additional Subjects Air pollution ; Sources ; User friendly ; Point sources ; Tracer studies ; Fortran ; Receptor models
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NTIS  PB86-176369 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
A user-friendly air quality simulation screening model coded in FORTRAN is described and sample use is shown for point source impact assessment. The model was developed and tested on a personal computer and can be run interactively on a mainframe. Any of five dispersion techniques: (1) wind fluctuations, (2) Briggs urban, (3) Briggs rural, (4) Pasquill-Gifford, or (5) Brookhaven can be used. Plume rise can be calculated either by Briggs 1975 techniques, currently included in models used for regulatory purposes, or by techniques which calculate plume rise layer-by-layer and consider partial penetration. Maximum ground-level concentration downwind or concentrations at specific locations can be estimated. Receptor locations can be specified in four ways: (1) specific downwind distance, (2) downwind and crosswind location, (3) distance and azimuth from the source, or (4) Cartesian coordinates of both source and receptor. The model provides ground-level estimates for a single stack or groundlevel source.