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Title: Urban Dispersion Virtual Workshop: Designing the Next Generation Urban Dispersion Field Programs

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1469782· OSTI ID:1469782
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  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

The overarching objective of this workshop is to start the process of planning and implementing the “Next Generation of Urban Dispersion Studies”. We have organized this program to bring people interested in this complex problem together. We have representation from different disciplines, different agencies, and different academic institutions. The workshop is organized around several questions: • What are the needs of the emergency response community and how do we design models and experiments to address them? • What model improvements do the user communities need? • How do we design tracer release and sampling to address questions temporal (e.g., diurnal and seasonal variation) and spatial (e.g., land/urban/water gradients) for the broadest applicability? • What are the next-generation measurements needed to improve the data sets? • How do we implement the next generation urban dispersion experiments? The Virtual workshop format is exciting. We view this as an experiment which, if successful, will bring a large group of people together from the community to design the next generation urban experiments. We have many agencies participating: DOE-BER, DHS, FEMA, NNSA, NARAC, DTRA, NYPD, and NIST. The registration list includes over 40 people including participants from well beyond the US including Spain and Canada.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1469782
Report Number(s):
BNL-209032-2018-INRE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English