TUPOS: EPA/ORD (Environmental Protection Agency/Office of Research and Development) air-quality simulation model. Model-Simulation

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:7019834

Petersen, B

TUPOS estimates dispersion directly from fluctuation statistics at plume level and calculates plume rise and partial penetration of the plume into stable layers using vertical profiles of wind and temperature. TUPOS can be used for short-term (hours to days) impact assessment of inert pollutants from single or multiple sources and can be expected to have greatest accuracy for locations within 10 km of the source. Although TUPOS will make computations for receptors having any ground-level elevation, it is not intended as a complex-terrain model, but rather as a model for calculations over flat or gently rolling terrain. TUPOS will optionally treat buoyancy-induced dispersion but does not include building downwash, deposition, or fumigation.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Environmental Sciences Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 7019834
• Report Number(s): PB-90-500877/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR POLLUTION
AIR QUALITY
ALGORITHMS
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FORTRAN
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PLUMES
POLLUTION
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SIMULATION