Southern california offshore air quality model validation study. Volume I: executive summary. Final report
This volume summarizes the significant results of a BLM-funded study conducted jointly by AeroVironment Inc. and the Naval Postgraduate School to validate and/or modify screening models commonly used to predict onshore air quality impacts from outer continental shelf (OCS) emission sources. The study involved both field experiments and computer modeling analysis to give a better understanding of dispersion over water and at the land/sea interface. Two field experiments were performed releasing SF6 tracer gas from a research vessel offshore the Ventura-Oxnard, California coastal area in September, 1980 and January, 1981. Modifications are discussed for standard Gaussian models to predict peak plume concentration values, the horizontal and vertical shape of the plume, and peak ground-level impacts from OCS emission sources.
- Research Organization:
- AeroVironment, Inc., Pasadena, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6854708
- Report Number(s):
- PB-82-190711
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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