Automated atmospheric hazard assessment/warning system (AAHAWS) for local emergency management agencies
- MEVATEC Corp., Huntsville, AL (United States)
- ENSR Consulting, Camarillo, CA (United States)
Some Local Emergency Management Agencies (EMA) have developed the need to analyze potential contamination from accidental atmospheric release of toxic agents resulting from chemical/biological weapons decommissioning or accidental spills. Most local agencies posses some or all of the capability to connect all of these codes into an automatic hazard assessment/warning system. This automated system has advantages over the traditional approach to atmospheric assessment and warning. In addition, this system will outperform many of the current systems which use exclusion zones such as D2 PC, now resident at some of the EMAs. In order to prepare and analyze evacuation routes, estimate hazard probabilities and characteristics of airborne threat agents, it is necessary to model the end to end Hazard Assessment System. This modeling may take place in the form of many hand integrated steps or with partial steps performed on a computer. This system of hazard assessment is an automated one with all of the integration steps eliminated. This system enables near real time prediction and what if scenarios and allows a database of scenarios to be compiled and available in an instant in a reduced form. It is important to exercise the hazard assessment system and store what if scenarios in the system`s database in the event of an accident. Sometimes all necessary outside information is not available in a reasonable amount of time (met data, for example) and a databank of what if scenarios may be able to fill in the holes.
- OSTI ID:
- 390809
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960482--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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