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NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE AND ACCESS PROTAL TOOL
Citation:
CHING, J. K., M. Brown, S. Burian, F. Chen, R. Cionco, A. Hanna, T. Hultgren, D. Sailor, H. Taha, AND D. J. WILLIAMS. NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE AND ACCESS PROTAL TOOL. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 90(8):1157-1168, (2009).
Impact/Purpose:
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems - by providing new approaches to characterize landscape features, conditions, and change.
Description:
Current mesoscale weather prediction and microscale dispersion models are limited in their ability to perform accurate assessments in urban areas. A project called the National Urban Database with Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT) is beginning to provide urban data and improve the parameterization of urban boundary-layer processes (Ching, 2007). The impetus for NUDAPT came from results of an American Meteorological Society Board of Urban Environment survey and recommendations from the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology’s Urban Environment Workshop (2005). Recognizing the need to address issues ranging from the prediction of exposure to a deadly toxic release to the assessment of health risk from poor air quality in urban areas, NUDAPT was initiated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and supported by several Federal and State agencies and private and academic institutions. NUDAPT will fill a critical gap to provide refined and specialized information to fulfill the as yet unmet accuracy requirements for urban applications.