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EFFECTS OF METEOROLOGY ON THE TRANSPORT OF DISPERSION OF EMISSIONS FROM THE WTC RECOVERY SITE
Citation:
Huber, A H., R C. Gilliam, H. Felngersh, AND R. Kelly. EFFECTS OF METEOROLOGY ON THE TRANSPORT OF DISPERSION OF EMISSIONS FROM THE WTC RECOVERY SITE. Presented at ISEA/ISEE 2002 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 11-15, 2002.
Impact/Purpose:
The research is planned to meet the following objectives:
Support is provided to HEASD Tasks by Alan Huber. (60% 9524 New Air Toxics Modeling, ; 10% 5732 PM Population Exposure Modeling; 10% 3948 Next Generation MMMP Exposure Modeling; 10% N533 PM Toxic agent exposure modeling, and 10% 3957 Integrated Human Exposure Source-to-Dose Modeling)
Description:
Since September 11, 2001, the EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) has applied its meteorological measurements and modeling to support WTC recovery projects. The local meteorology is a key factor in both the diurnal and day-to-day changes in the ambient air concentration levels important to estimating outdoor human exposures. Routine National Weather Service models and measurements of meteorology provide broad coverage over the United States. NERL has a Meteorological Instrumentation Cluster (MIC3) of 3 trailers supporting a portable 10-m tower, a miniSODAR, and a larger SODAR system to vertically profile the site-specific atmospheric winds.