Agenda and Presentations* for the
Sixth Annual George Mason University
Transport and Dispersion Modeling Workshop
July
10 and 11, 2002
Fairfax, Virginia
U.S.A.
*Please note that
all presentations are in the Adobe PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 format.
Therefore, it is best to view the CD on a personal computer.
Click here for the abstracts of all presentations.
All
Sessions were held at Room 80, Enterprise Hall, the Fairfax campus of George
Mason University.
8:00 All day both days - Registration
8:30 8:45
Introductions
Session
Chair for Wednesday Morning - David Bacon
(SAIC)
Session 1
General Meteorological and Dispersion Models
303 497 8411 warner@rap.ucar.edu
9:00
9:15 Overview of MESO atmospheric transport and dispersion
code
Steve Diehl, Bob Keith, and John Keith
ITT Industries, 5009 Centennial Blvd., Colorado
Springs, CO 80949-9550
719 599 1634
Steve.Diehl@itt.com
David P. Bacon, Zafer
Boybeyi, and Michael Kaplan
SAIC, 1710 SAIC Drive,
McLean, VA 22102
703 676 4594 Fax:
703 676 5509 david.p.bacon@saic.com
9:30 9:45 Ensemble mesoscale forecasting and expert
systems for emergency response dispersion prediction
Martin J. Bell and Jeffrey H. Copeland
MRC/ASTER, PO Box 466, Fort
Collins, CO 80522-0466
970 282 4400 bell@aster.com,
copeland@aster.com
9:45
10:00 The future of operational ensemble
dispersion forecasting for emergency-response applications
Thomas Warner and Yubao Liu
303 497 8411 warner@rap.ucar.edu
10:00 10:30
Coffee Break
A. Sarma
SAIC, 1710 SAIC Drive,
McLean, VA 22102
703 676 7017 Fax:
703 676 5509 sarmaa@saic.com
10:45 - 11:00
NBC weather message accuracy
and hazard area prediction
Reinier Sterkenburg and
Harald Weber
TNO Prins Maurits Lab., PO
Box 45, 2280 AA Rijswijk, The Netherlands
31 15 284 3413 sterkenburg@pml.tno.nl
11:00 11:15 Droplet physics code modules for hazardous
gas transport and dispersion
John Guillory
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
11:15 11:30 LIDAR measurements of spray dispersion
plumes from ground orchard sprayers
David Miller and Masoud Salyani
University
of Connecticut, 1376 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-4087
860
486 0142 dmiller@canr.uconn.edu
11:30
11:45 Dugway aerosol cloud analysis from the
perspective of inverse modeling
David Vasholz and Daniel Ondercin
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11:45 12:00 US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological
Center Chemical Biological Agent Simulant Knowledge (ASK) Database
Raymond Jablonski and William
Ashman
US Army SBCCOM, ATTN:
AMSSB-RRT-IM, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424
410 436 3566 ray.jablonski@sbccom.apgea.army.mil
(A report
on the ASK database is also available.)
12:00 1:30
Lunch on Your Own
Session
Chair for Wednesday Afternoon - John Pace (DTRA) and Jim Bowers (DPG)
Session 3 Urban Meteorology and Dispersion Models - I
J. Pace, J. Bowers and R. Fry
1:45 2:00 Evaluation and application of a city-scale computational fluid
dynamics model to transport and dispersion problems (Paper Withdrawn)
David DeCroix, W. Scott Smith and Michael Brown
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS F604, Los Alamos,
NM 87545
505 667 1788
Fax: 505 665 5125 mbrown@lanl.gov
2:00
2:15 Implementation of an urban canopy
parameterization in MM5: preliminary results
Tanya Otte and Avraham Lacser
U.S. EPA/ORD/NERL, MD E243-03, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711
919 541 7533
Fax: 919 541 1379 otte.tanya@epa.gov
2:15
2:30 Simulation at neighborhood scale with MM5
Sylvain Dupont
U.S. EPA/ORD/NERL, MD E243-03, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711
2:30 2:45 Application of mesoscale models to simulate
airflows and dispersion around non-rectangular shaped buildings
Ted Yamada
YSA Corporation, 13 Heiwa,
Santa Fe, NM 87506
505 989 7351 ysa@ysasoft.com
2:45 3:00 Modeling sub-grid
air pollution concentration distributions in air quality models
Jason Ching
AMD, NERL, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Mary Hall and Zafer Boybeyi
SAIC, 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA 22102
703 676 8691
mary.s.hall@saic.com
Martin Otte and Roni Avissar
Dept. of Civil and Environ.
Eng., Duke University, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708-0286
919 660 5463 otte@duke.edu
4:00 4:15 Joint Effects Model (JEM)
independent model analysis study results
CAPT Theodore Follas, Scott Carey, and Vladimir Kogan
USNR SPAWARSYSCOM PMW 153-3
4301 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92110-3127
858 537 0135
Follast@spawar.navy.mil
4:15 4:30 Automated Decision-Aid System for
Hazardous Incidents (ADASHI)
James Genovese, Raymond
Jablonski, and Art Stuempfle
US Army SBCCOM, ATTN:
AMSSB-RRT-IM, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424
410 436 3566 ray.jablonski@sbccom.apgea.army.mil
4:30 4:45 Relationship between toxicity values
for the military population and toxicity values for the general population
Ronald Crosier and Douglas Sommerville
US Army SBCCOM, ATTN:
AMSSB-RRT-IM, E3331, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
21010-5424
410 436 4253 douglas.sommerville@sbccom.apgea.army.mil
4:45
5:00 Effect of vegetation on aerosol transport
Jeremy Leggoe, Alan Graham, James Abbott, and John
White
Dept. of Chem. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., PO Box 43121,
Lubbock, TX 79409
806 742 1767
Jeremy.Leggoe@coe.ttu.edu
Day 2,
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Session
Chair for Thursday Morning - Ted Yamada (YSA)
Session 5 MUST Array Analysis
8:30 8:45 Hydraulic modeling of the MUST array
R.
Macdonald and C. Ejim
Dept. of
Mech. Eng., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N21 3G1
519
888 4567 X 5422 Fax: 519 888 6197 rwmacdon@mecheng1.uwaterloo.ca
8:45 9:00 On the structure of plumes dispersing through
large arrays of obstacles
Eugene Yee and Christopher
Biltoft
Defense Research and
Development Canada-Suffield, P.O. Box 4000, STN MAIN,
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
T1A 8K6
403 544 4605 Fax:
403 544 3388 eugene.yee@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
9:00 - 9:15 Validation of the Urban Dispersion Model
using the MUST data set
Ian Griffiths, David Brook,
David Hall, Mark Hargrave, and Mike Hamer
Dstl, Room 007A, Building
007, Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ UK
44 1980 613691 Fax:
44 1980 614600 ihgriffiths@dstl.gov.uk
9:15 9:30 Wind tunnel simulations of the Mock Urban
Setting test at Dugway
Ralph Gailis and Eugene Yee
Defense Research and
Development Canada-Suffield, P.O. Box 4000, STN MAIN,
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
T1A 8K6
403 544 4791 Fax:
403 544 3388 ralph.gailis@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
9:30 9:45 Measurements of air flow and dispersion in
the smart building: Why experimentalists have all the fun?
Richard
Sextro, Tracy Thatcher, Doug Black, Woody Delp, Elissa Derby, William Watt,
Emily Wood, David Lorenzetti, Mike Sohn, Phil Price, and Melissa Lunden
Indoor
Environment Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
CA 94720
510
486 6295 rgsextro@lbl.gov
Session 6 Model Evaluation Methods
9:45 10:00 A framework to assess dispersion model uncertainty
and variability
Joseph Chang
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
703 578 8595 jchang4@scs.gmu.edu
10:00 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 10:45
Application of two-dimensional
user-oriented measure of effectiveness to interior building releases
Nathan Platt, Steve Warner, and James Heagy
Institute for Defense
Analysis, 4850 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22311-1882
703 845 2267 Fax:
703 845 2255 nplatt@ida.org
Elfrun Lehmann, P. Franzese,
J. Chang, S. Hanna, R. Britter, and N. Hamer
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030
703 993 4671 Fax:
703 993 1980 elehmann@gmu.edu
11:00 11:15 - Numerical investigations of weakly forced
circulations over the Chesapeake Bay area
Dingchen Hou and Zafer Boybeyi
MS 5C3,
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
703
993 3960 dhou@gmu.edu
11:15
11:30 Source size effects on internal
concentration fluctuations estimates
Pasquale Franzese
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Tel: 703 993 1968 Fax:
703 993 1980 pfranzes@gmu.edu
Session 8 - Urban Meteorology and Dispersion
Models - II
11:30- 11:45 Development of a computational fluid
dynamics based urban dispersion simulator
William Coirier, S. Kim, D. Fricker, M. Furmanczyk, and A. Przekwas
CFD Research Corp., 215 Wynn
Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805
256 726 4927 wjc@cfdrc.com
11:45
12:00 Select scenarios of transport and diffusion
for urban and other-than-urban sites
Ronald Cionco
U.S. Army Research Lab., ATTN: AMSRCL-CI-EB, White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002
505 678 1572
Fax: 505 678 1230 rcionco@arl.army.mil
12:00 1:30 Lunch on Your Own
Session
Chair for Thursday Afternoon - Rob Macdonald (University of Waterloo)
1:30 1:45 Urban modeling at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Martin Leach, S. Chan, H.-N.
Chin, T. Humphreys, R. Lee, J. leone, G. Loosmore, J. Nasstrom, and G. Sugiyama
Atmos. Science Div., L-103,
LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550
925 422 5192 Fax:
925 422 5844 leach6@llnl.gov
1:45
2:00 CT_Analyst: Portable tool for dispersion with zero delay and high fidelity
Jay Boris, Keith Obenschain, Gopal Patnaik and
Theodore Young, Jr.
US Naval Research Lab., Code 6400, Overlook Ave.,
Washington, DC 20375
202 767 3055
boris@lcp.nrl.navy.mil
2:00 2:15 Effect of transition to
urban environment on contaminant transport
John
Iselin, Gopal Patnaik, Carey Cox, and Jay Boris
Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA 17837
202
767 3196 iselin@bucknell.edu
2:15 2:30 Use of similarity models to
aid understanding of Urban-2000 data
Steven
Hanna and Pasquale Franzese
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Tel: 703 993 1992 Fax:
703 993 1980 shanna@gmu.edu
2:30 2:45 Average concentration profiles in an
idealized urban canopy based on high resolution numerical simulations
Bertrand Carissimo and Robert
Macdonald
Electricite de France,
Research and development Division, Chatou, France
2:45 3:00 A numerical study on the spatial and temporal
variation of ozone within the Phoenix valley
S.-M. Lee, M. Sinesi, M.
Princevac, D. Zajic, H.J.S. Fernando, and J. Anderson
Dept. of Civil and Environ.
Eng., Arizona State Univ., P.O. Box 879809, Tempe, AZ 85287-9809
480 727 6660 smlee@asu.edu
3:00
3:30 Break
3:30
3:45 Pressure and concentration patterns on
buildings in urban arrays
D.J. Hall, S. Walker, A. Mfula, A.M. Spanton, and V.
Kukadia
Envirobods Ltd, 13, Badminton Close, Stevenage,
Herfordshire SG2 8SR UK
44 1438 817667
djhall@envirobods.co.uk
(Two additional reports
were also provided by David Hall, Pressure and concentration patterns on building forms
in urban arrays, and exposure of buildings to pollutants in urban areas - A review of
the contributions from different sources . The second report is due to
appear as a chapter in Peter Brimblecombe's new book, entitled Effects of
Air Pollution in the Built Environment.)
3:45
4:00 Validation
efforts for Urban Windfield Model (UWM)
David Lim, Doug Henn, and Philip Hookham
Titan RTD, 9410 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Suite 104,
Chatsworth, CA 91311
818 700 4435
dlim@titan.com
4:00 4:15 Towards the automation of 3D geometric
model development for high performance simulation of chemicals and biological
threats
R. Baffour, S. Aliabadi, J. Abedi, B. Zellars, A. Ji, M. Watts, A. Fuller, K.
Ford, K. Bota, and I. Osemwengie
Clark Atlanta Univ., Dept. of
Eng., 223 James P. Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
404 880 6433
Fax: 404 880 6720 rbaffour@cau.edu
4:15 - 4:30 Validation of the Urban Dispersion
Simulator to experimental and field data
William Coirier, Sura Kim and David Fricker
CFD Research Corp., 215 Wynn
Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805
256 726 4927 wjc@cfdrc.com
4:30 End of Workshop
Poster Presentations
P1 Using
radiation fallout patterns at Chornobyl to develop and assess aerosol
dispersion models
Jeremy Leggoe, Alan Graham, James Abbot, Ronald Chesser and Brenda Rodgers
Dept. of Chem. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., PO Box 43121,
Lubbock, TX 79409
806 742 1767
Jeremy.Leggoe@coe.ttu.edu
Yimin Ma
MS 5C3, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
703 993 3576 Fax: 703 993 1980 yma@scs.gmu.edu
P3 Atmospheric dispersion at local scales
using CFD
Fernando
Camelli, Steven Hanna, Rainald Lφhner, and William Sandberg
MS
5C3, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
703 993 4073 fcamelli@gmu.edu
P4 Variation
of flow within the MUST array (Paper Withdrawn)
Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Energy and Environmental Analysis Group D-4
MS F604, Los Alamos, NM 87545
505 665 6111 nelsonm@lanl.gov