WOCSS as a preprocessor for SLAM
- ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL (United States)
The modeling of pollutant transport using simple Gaussian diffusion gives reasonably reliable results in environments with uniform terrain and steady winds. A less ideal environment surrounds the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INE), the site of the short-range Airborne Chemical Effluent Experiment (ACE III) experiment (source-to-sampler distance of 150 km or less). The release point was situated near the center of a valley with small canyons and mountainous terrain to the north. More complex wind patterns such as up- or down-valley flow and flow through complex terrain may cause simpler Gaussian models to produce unreliable results. In an effort to obtain improved atmospheric transport, wind fields input to the SLAM model (Short-Range Layered Atmospheric Model) were pre-processed using WOCSS. WOCSS (Winds On Critical Streamline Surfaces) produces a three-dimensional mass-consistent wind field to more accurately depict the local flows.
- OSTI ID:
- 422953
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960127-; TRN: IM9707%%260
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. joint American Meteorological Society/Air and Waste Management Association conference on applications of air pollution meteorology, Atlanta, GA (United States), 28 Jan - 2 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]; Related Information: Is Part Of Ninth joint conference on applications of air pollution meteorology with A and WMA; PB: 672 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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