User's guide to the MATHEW/ADPIC (Mass-Adjusted THRee-dimensional Wind/Atmospheric Diffusion Particle-In-Cell) models

Technical Report · Mon Apr 16 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6873133· OSTI ID:6873133

Rodriguez, D J; Greenly, G D; Gresho, P M; Lange, R; Lawver, B S; Lawson, L A; Walker, H

This user's guide provides both an operational and theoretical summary of the MATHEW/ADPIC transport and diffusion models and supplemental codes needed to execute these models. The acronym, MATHEW, comes from Mass-Adjusted THRee-dimensional Wind field. ADPIC stands for Atmospheric Diffusion Particle-In-Cell model. These models calculate air concentration and ground deposition on a regional scale (up to 200 km) from continuous or instantaneous point sources. MATHEW is a three-dimensional meteorological data-adjustment model which supplies ADPIC with mean wind fields that are mass-consistent and representative of the available meteorological measurements. The bottom boundary in this model is determined by grid cell estimates of the actual topographic features of a given site and its environs, which can play a very important role in defining or modeling regional-scale patterns. ADPIC is a three-dimensional, particle-in-cell transport and diffusion code capable of calculating the time-dependent dispersion of inert or radioactive air pollutants. An overview of MATHEW/ADPIC and the support routines is included. A complete technical formulation of each code is found in Section 2. Section 3 provides a user's guide to each code.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6873133
• Report Number(s): UCRL-MA-103581; ON: DE90013047
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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