Preliminary evaluation of the Minerals Management Service`s offshore modeling system: A long-range modeling alternative
- ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL (United States)
- Dept. of the Interior, New Orleans, LA (United States)
The Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS) has recently adopted an alternative modeling capability for tracking pollutant releases from offshore platforms in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico. The new modeling system provides transport and diffusion capabilities well beyond the existing straight-line Gaussian models (OCD, Offshore and Coastal Dispersion Model and E.P.A.`s SCREEN Model), which are limited by design to a maximum 50 km range. The new model, {open_quotes}SLAM{close_quotes} (Short-range Layered Atmospheric Model), is part of the Offshore Modeling System, which provides a well integrated modeling capability supported by a fully automated dial-up data service. The Offshore Modeling System executes on a Sun SPARCStation 2 at the MMS in New Orleans. All weather observations are provided through WSI Corporation and are ingested by the model`s preprocessor which builds validated model input files. A typical model simulation takes less than 60 minutes from start to finish as compared to the very time-intensive model preparation required by current regulatory models.
- OSTI ID:
- 28741
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940115-; TRN: 95:002816-0032
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 8. Joint conference on applications of air pollution meterology. 74. American Meteorological Society annual meeting, Nashville, TN (United States), 23-28 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Eighth joint conference on applications of air pollution meteorology with A & WMA; PB: 359 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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