The Evaluation of Emergency Response Trace Gas and Dense Gas Dispersion Models

Dickerson, M.H.; Ermak, D.L.

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“…and Ermak (1988), Lange (1989), Foster and Dickerson (1990), and Lange (1992). Each individual evaluation used the most stringent statistical comparison, where measurements are paired with model calculations in both space and time.…”

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“…Its mission was to develop a centralized means of predicting radiation dose levels and surface contamination from accidental atmospheric releases of nuclear materials at AEC facilities. The initial computer models developed by ARAC for this purpose substantially improved the ability of emergency response personnel to make realtime assessments of the potential consequences of such an accident (Dickerson and Orphan 1976).…”

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Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability: Real-Time Modeling of Airborne Hazardous Materials

Sullivan¹,

Ellis²,

Foster³

et al. 1993

Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

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The Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (ARAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a centralized federal project for assessing atmospheric releases of hazardous materials in real time. Since ARAC began making assessments in 1974, the project has responded to over 60 domestic and international incidents. ARAC can model radiological accidents in the United States within 30 to 90 min, using its operationally robust, three-dimensional atmospheric transport and dispersion models, extensive geophysi-cal and dose-factor databases, meteorological data acquisition systems, and experienced staff. Although it was originally conceived and developed as an emergency response and assessment service for providing dose-assessment calculations after nuclear accidents, it has proven to be an extremely adaptable system, capable of being modified to respond also to nonradiological hazardous releases. In 1991, ARAC responded to three major events: the oil fires in Kuwait, the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines, and an herbicide spill into the upper Sacramento River in California. Modeling the atmospheric effects of these events added significantly to the range of problems that ARAC can address and demonstrated that the system can be adapted to assess and respond to concurrent, multiple, unrelated events at different locations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society FIG. 13. The upper Sacramento River and Lake Shasta region affected by the metam sodium spill.

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Section: B Computer Codesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability: Real-Time Modeling of Airborne Hazardous Materials

Sullivan¹,

Ellis²,

Foster³

et al. 1993

Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

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“…statistical tests, t and F. Fox (1981), Hanna (1984), and Dickerson and Ermak (1988) have suggested that these statistics can be used to evaluate dispersion models. There have been many published air-quality studies that employ these statistics, such as those reported in the Hilton Head (Buckner, 1980) and Kiawah (Weber and Garrett, 1984) workshops.…”

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Evaluation protocol for the WIND system atmospheric models

Fast¹

1991

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Dispersion of a dense cylindrical cloud in a turbulent atmosphere

Matthias¹

1992

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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The Evaluation of Emergency Response Trace Gas and Dense Gas Dispersion Models

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Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability: Real-Time Modeling of Airborne Hazardous Materials

Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability: Real-Time Modeling of Airborne Hazardous Materials

Evaluation protocol for the WIND system atmospheric models

Dispersion of a dense cylindrical cloud in a turbulent atmosphere

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