Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using the 1996 MVP Tracer Study for Transport and Diffusion Model Validation

Pendergrass, William R.; Ngan, Fong; Hicks, Bruce B.; Hosker, Rayford P.; Mazzola, Carl A.; Bruggeman, David A.

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Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using the 1996 MVP Tracer Study for Transport and Diffusion Model Validation

2020
By Pendergrass, William R. ; Ngan, Fong ; Hicks, Bruce B.
Series: NOAA technical memorandum OAR ARL ; 281

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Personal Author:

Pendergrass, William R. ; Ngan, Fong ; Hicks, Bruce B. ; Hosker, Rayford P. ; Mazzola, Carl A. ; Bruggeman, David A.
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ; Air Resources Laboratory (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; ARL (Air Resources Laboratory) ; CISESS (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies)
Description:

The 1996 USAF Model Validation Study (MVP) provides an extensive atmospheric tracer database containing over two hundred gaseous tracer releases covering three seasons for the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). Tracer experiments included both ground-level as well as elevated releases of SF6. Both puff and continuous releases were conducted. This report describes a demonstration of the feasibility of using the 1996 MVP study to develop a model simulation database to support the evaluation of the performance of (1) numerical weather prediction models as well as (2) transport and diffusion models, both used to assess potential accident scenarios which might pose a threat from an atmospheric release of hazardous materials near the CCAFS. For this demonstration, the community state-of-the-science Weather Research Forecast (WRF) numerical model was used to develop the meteorological fields used to drive NOAA/ARL’s Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) transport and diffusion model.
Series:

NOAA technical memorandum OAR ARL ; 281
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/x74e-3k77
Document Type:

Technical Memorandum
Place as Subject:

United States
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/27410/noaa_27410_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 2.51 MB]
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Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) ; NOAA Cooperative Institutes
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