Session 10 Advancements and Needs in Dispersion Modeling: Part I

Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
211 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

CoChair:
Steven Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME

Description:

Abstracts in this session can include:

  1. Advances in boundary layer and dispersion modeling for Green House Gasses;
  2. The roles of plume, puff, Lagrangian particle, and other approaches;
  3. Long-range transport models;
  4. Use of mesoscale models for providing meteorological data driving applied dispersion models;
  5. Dispersion predictions for short averaging times (sec to minutes) in hazards and other assessments.


Papers:
1:30 PM
10.1
A tracer of opportunity data set for atmospheric transport and dispersion model evaluation.
Alice Crawford, ARL, College Park, MD; and M. Cohen, F. Ngan, J. Heffter, B. Baker, W. T. Luke, and A. F. Stein

1:45 PM
10.2
New Implementation of Buoyant Transport and Dispersion in Weather Research & Forecast's Large-Eddy Simulation Framework
Sudheer Reddy Bhimireddy, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and K. Bhaganagar

2:00 PM
10.3
Coupling an off-line Lagrangian Dispersion Model with Large Eddy Simulations as a Tool for Vertical Mixing Parametrization Development in Mesoscale Applications
Israel Lopez-Coto, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and P. B. Shepson, A. Karion, C. Gerbig, K. Prasad, and J. R. Whetstone

2:15 PM
10.4
Simulation of diurnal Green House Gas (GHG) emission flux from a complex mining facility using WRF
Manoj K. Nambiar, Univ. of Guelph, School of Engineering, Guelph, ON, Canada; and A. Nazem, M. R. Nahian, R. A. E. Byerlay, and A. A. Aliabadi

Abstract Submissions Closed