Principal Investigator: Jerry Allwine, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory Proposal Title: "Field Studies for Testing and Refining Atmospheric
Dispersion Models" Research Goals: This research project will provide field data to
CBNP model developers for testing and improving the hierarchy of atmospheric
models used to simulate dispersion in urban atmospheres. The proposed
tracer and meteorological experiments, to be conducted in Salt Lake City
in the Fall of 2000, will provide a unique set of atmospheric dispersion
data covering transport scales from individual buildings on through the
urban-scale to the regional scale. The focus of Salt Lake City experiments
is to characterize the dispersion around multiple buildings. Equipment Deployed: Tracer samplers, miscellaneous meteorological
instruments.
Principal Investigator: Kirk Clawson, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Air Resources Laboratory - Field
Research Division Proposal Title: "Tracer Studies in Urban Environments" Research Goals: The objective of this research is to characterize
atmospheric dispersion in urban environments using tracer techniques.
The focus of the Salt Lake City investigations is to measure atmospheric
dispersion in and around downtown Salt Lake City. Equipment Deployed: Tracer samplers, radar wind profiler, RASS,
sodar, miscellaneous meteorological instruments.
Principal Investigator: Joe Shinn, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory Proposal Title: "Urban Field Experiments and Model Validation" Research Goals: The objective of this research is to assure that
numerical simulation models for chemical/biological agent incident response,
developed by CBNP investigators, are technically and operationally validated.
One component of this research is to conduct field experiments in urban
settings to gather meteorological and tracer data for model validation.
Characterizing dispersion around a single building is the focus of the
Salt Lake City field effort. Equipment Deployed: Tracer samplers, meteorological towers, sodar,
miscellaneous meteorological instruments.
Principal Investigator: Jim Bowers, US
Army Dugway Proving Ground Proposal Title: "Meteorological Measurements in Urban Environments" Research Goals: The objective of this research is to characterize
the wind, temperature and turbulence structure in urban environments.
The focus of the Salt Lake City investigations is to help characterize
the meteorology in the vicinity of downtown Salt Lake City. A secondary
objective of the Salt Lake City efforts is to help characterize the vertical
structure of winds and temperature over an unobstructed slope on the west
side of the Salt Lake Valley. Equipment Deployed: Radar wind profiler, tethersonde, sodar, radiosondes,
miscellaneous meteorological instruments.