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Main Title Integration of fluid modeling with complex-terrain field studies and model-development efforts /
Author Snyder, William H.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1988
Report Number EPA/600/D-89/036
Stock Number PB89-223721
Additional Subjects Mathematical models ; Atmospheric diffusion ; Air pollution ; Plumes ; Topographic features ; Gas dynamics ; Field tests ; Experimental design ; Atmospheric motion ; Measure and integration ; Complex Terrain Model Development Program ; Environmental transport
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NTIS  PB89-223721 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 6 pages ; 28 cm
Abstract
EPA's Complex Terrain Model Development Program (CTMDP) was designed to develop reliable atmospheric dispersion models applicable to large pollutant sources located in complex terrain. The primary emphasis was on plume impaction on nearby hills during nighttime stable conditions. EPA's Fluid Modeling Facility (FMF) interacted closely with the model developers participating in the CTMDP and provided support in various ways through the conduct of a wide range of laboratory studies. Work at the FMF prior to the inception of the program provided the basic framework for the model, the dividing-streamline concept, and the focal point around which the field program was designed. At the beginning of the program, the FMF provided direct support as an aid to planning the details and strategies of the field experiments and testing the limits of applicability of the dividing-streamline concept. Later work included exercises of 'filling in the gaps' in the field data, furthering the understanding of the physical mechanisms important to plume impaction in complex terrain and in stably stratified flows in general, testing various modeling assumptions, providing data for 'calibration' of various modeling parameters, and testing the ability of the laboratory models to simulate full-scale conditions.
Notes
"February 22, 1988." EPA/600/D-89/036. PB89-223721. "To be presented at the Eighth Symposium on Turbulence, and Diffusion, American Meteorological Society, San Diego, CA, April, 1988." Microfiche.