Agenda
and presentations for the
8th
Annual George Mason University Conference
on
Transport
and Dispersion Modeling
July 13-15, 2004
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.
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Theme:
- Improve understanding of atmospheric
transport and
dispersion processes,
- Support homeland security requirements
and
- Share
experience across different sectors.
All Sessions are
held at Room 80, Enterprise Hall, the Fairfax campus of George Mason
University
DAY
1, TUESDAY JULY 13, 2004
(7:00 - All Day) Registration
(7:00 - 9:00)
Continental Breakfast
(7:45 - 8:00)
Introductions
Session 1 - Sensor
Data Fusion & Dispersion
Session Chair -
John Pace (Defense Threat Reduction Agency)
(8:00 - 8:15) Overview
of Joint Science and
Technology Office Chemical and Biological Defense Program
J.
Pace
Joint Science and Technology
Office, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Alexandria, Virginia
(8:15 - 8:30) Probabilistic
Sensor-Fusion
and Data-Fusion in Operational
CBR Systems
P.
A. Thomas*, P. Robins & J. Defty
*Defense
Science and Technology Laboratory
Porton Down, Salisbury
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
(8:30 - 8:45) Capability-based Biological
Protection CONOPS Development using HPAC
J.
E. Jordan*, S. Bradley, P. Nonez & R. Naworol
*Defense Threat Reduction
Agency
Support Team
Northrop Grumman Information
Technology
Alexandria, Virginia
(8:45 - 9:00) Source
Estimation from
Sensor Alarms using SCIPUFF
R.
I. Sykes* & B. Chowdhury
*Titan Corporation
Princeton, New Jersey
(9:00 - 9:15) Modeling the
Biological
Background
D.
J. Fish* & D. R. Brook
*Defense Science and Technology
Laboratory
Porton Down, Salisbury
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
(9:15 - 9:30) Tracking Atmospheric
Plumes using Stand-off Sensor
Data
R.
C. Brown*, D. M. Dussault, R. C. Miake-Lye & P. Heimbach
*Center for
Aero-Thermodynamics,
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Billerica, Massachusetts
(9:30 - 9:45)
Dynamic
Data-Driven Event
Reconstruction for Atmospheric Releases
B.
Kosovic*, G. Sugiyama, K. Dyer, W. Hanley, G. Johannesson, J. Nitao,
S. Larsen, G. Loosmore, J. Lundquist, A. Mirin, & R. Serban
*Atmospheric Science Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California
(9:45 - 10:15) Coffee Break
Session 2 - Mesoscale Modeling &
Dispersion
Session Chair -
David P. Bacon (Science Applications International Corporation)
(10:15 - 10:30) The
Challenges of Forecasting and Nowcasting During Joint Urban 2003
J.
B. Basara* & P. K. Hall Jr.
*Oklahoma
Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
(10:30 - 10:45) Impact
of the Urban
Parameterization on Plume Transport
D.
P. Bacon* & Z. Boybeyi
*Science Applications
International Corporation
McLean, Virginia
(10:45 - 11:00) Impacts from
urban & rural surface modifications on meteorology and air quality
in Houston: preliminary results
H. Taha*, R.
Bornstein & R. Balmori
*Altostratus Inc.
Martinez, California
(11:00 - 11:15) Plume Transport
and Dispersion in Complex Coastal Terrain
R.
A. Sarma
Science Applications
International Corporation
McLean,
Virginia
(11:15 - 11:30) Bayesian
Spatio-Temporal
Models for Wind Prediction and the Evaluation of Mesoscale
Meteorological Models
M. Fuentes*, L. Chen & J. Davis
*North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
(11:30 - 11:45) An
Automated
Humvee-Operated Meteorological Nowcast-Prediction System Suitable for
Transport-Dispersion Applications
D.
Stauffer*, A. Deng, A. Gibbs, G. Hunter, G. Young & N. Seaman
*Department of Meteorology,
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
(11:45 - 12:00) MM5 Simulations
of San Francisco Bay Area To Sacramento and The San Joaquin Valley
Transport During 30 JULY- 2 AUG 2000 CCOS Ozone Episode
R.
Bornstein* and T. Ghidey
*Department of Meteorology, San
Jose State University
San Jose, California
(12:00 - 1:30) Lunch Break (on your own expense)
Session
3 - Mesoscale Modeling & Dispersion (Con't)
Session Chair -
Zafer Boybeyi (George Mason University)
(1:30 - 1:45) Coastal
High-Resolution
Air-Sea Prediction
J.
Pullen*, J. Doyle & R. Signell
*Naval Research Laboratory
Monterey, California
(1:45 - 2:00)
Transport and
Dispersion of
Atmospheric Tracers in a Coastal Urban Region
D.
Koracin*, J. Koracin, T. McCord & D. Podnar
*Desert Research Institute
Reno, Nevada
(2:00 - 2:15)
Global
to Local Forecasting Using an Adaptive Unstructured Grid System
D.
P. Bacon
Science Applications
International Corporation
McLean, Virginia
(2:15 - 2:30) New
Insights into the
Predictability of Mesoscale-Model-Generated Forecast Wind Fields as
Input
to Transport and Dispersion Models
D.
L. Rife*, C. A. Davis & T. Warner
*National Center for
Atmospheric
Research
Boulder, Colorado
(2:30 - 2:45) An
Inter-comparison of Plume
Trajectories using Model and Observed Data in an Urban Coastal
Setting
J.
Titlow
Weatherflow, Inc.
Poquoson, Virginia
(2:45 - 3:00) Numerical
Simulation of
the Atmospheric Circulations and
Emission and Dispersion of Dust Particles in the Tarim Basin
A. Yamamoto*, N. Seino &
M. Chiba
*Meteorological Research
Institute
Tsukuba, Japan
(3:00
- 3:15) Simulations
and Observations of Mountain Waves over Jan Mayen
J.
Lindeman*, Z. Boybeyi, S. Eckermann & D. Broutman
*Comprehensive
Atmospheric Modeling Program (CAMP)
School
of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax,
Virginia
(3:15 - 3:45) Coffee Break
Session
4 - Urban Environment Monitoring & Dispersion
Session Chair -
Robert D. Bornstein (San Jose State University)
(3:45 - 4:00) Urban
Dispersion Testbeds - Progress and Plans for
DCNet and UrbaNet
B.
B. Hicks
Air Resources Laboratory
Silver Spring, Maryland
(4:00 - 4:15) Using Remote Sensing
to
Enhance Locating Population in Space and Time for Emergency Response
and Risk Assessment
D.
W. Wong*, Y. Cao & C. (Phil) Yang
*Earth Systems and
GeoInformation Sciences
School of Computational
Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
(4:15 - 4:30) Day-Night,
Indoor-Outdoor U.S. Population Database
T.
McPherson*, A. Ivey & M. Brown
*Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
(4:30 - 4:45)
Usefulness of Urban Scale GIS Databases for
Emergency Response Planning
L.
Schintler* & Z. Boybeyi
*School of Public Policy
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
(4:45 - 5:00)
GEMS: An Airborne
System for
Urban Environmental Monitoring
R. J.
Evans*, J. Manobianco, J.
Dreher & J. L. Case
*ENSCO, Inc.
Melbourne, Florida
(5:00
- 5:15) Geospatial
Information Rapid Service System
C.
(Phil) Yang*, Z. Boybeyi, M. Kafatos, D. W. Wong & R. Yang
*Earth Systems and
GeoInformation Sciences
School of Computational
Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
(5:15 - 5:30)
Characterizing
the Influence of Vegetation on Aerosol Transport in the
Urban Environment
J.
W. Leggoe*, J. R. Abbott, J. L. Williams & E. D. Eastepp
*Chemical Engineering
Department, Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
5:30 Happy Hour
DAY
2, WEDNESDAY JULY 14, 2004
(7:00 - All Day) Registration (Con't)
(7:00 - 9:00)
Continental Breakfast
Session 5 - Urban Scale Modeling & Dispersion
Session Chair -
Michael Brown (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
(8:00 - 8:15) A
Mass-consistent Urban Dispersion Model Mesoscale Distances
H. Kaplan
Israel Institute for Biological
Research
Ness Ziona, Israel
(8:15 - 8:30) Program
in Support of CFD Simulations of Micrometeorology and Contaminant
Transport within Exterior Urban Building Environments
A.
Huber* & M. Lazaro
*ARL, NOAA, on Assignment to
the
US EPA
Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
(8:30 -
8:45)
Evaluations
of the Micro SWIFT/SPRAY Wind and Transport/Dispersion Model for Urban
Areas
J.
Sontowski*, J. Moussafir, O. Oldrini, G. Tinarelli, C. Dougherty &
E. Montanes
*Science Applications
International Corporation
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
(8:45 - 9:00) A Higher-order Upwind
Scheme
on Unstructured Grids for Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere
N.
Ahmad*, Z. Boybeyi, R. Lohner & R. A. Sarma
*Comprehensive
Atmospheric Modeling Group (CAMP)
School
of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax,
Virginia
(9:00 - 9:15)
Reactive
CFD Simulations of
Chemical Pollutant Transformations in a Street Canyon
S.
Lacour*, T. Salameh & B. Carissimo
*Teaching
and Research Center for Atmospheric Environment (CEREA)
Marne La
Vallee, France
(9:15 - 9:30) Including Terrain
Effects in UWM
D.
Lim*, B. Laney & P. Hookham
*Titan Research and Technology
Division
Chatsworth, California
(9:30 - 9:45) QUIC Fast Response
Urban
Dispersion Model Development and Evaluation
M.
Brown*, E. Pardyjak, M. Williams & P. Kastner-Klein
*Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
(9:45 - 10:15) Coffee Break
Session
6 - Urban Scale Modeling & Dispersion (Con't)
Session Chair -
Tetsuji Yamada (Yamada Science and Art Corp.)
(10:15 - 10:30) Simulation
of MUST Using
FEFLO-URBAN CFD Model
F.
Camelli*, S. Hanna & R. Lohner
*CFD
Lab., School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
(10:30 - 10:45) Development
of the FLACS
CFD-Simulator to Handle Atmospheric Dispersion
O.
R. Hansen*, I. E. Storvik, H. F. Nordhaug, S. Dharmavaram & S.
Hanna
*GexCon
Bergen, Norway
(10:45 - 11:00) Optimal
Placement of
Sensors for Contaminant Detection Based on Detailed 3-D CFD
Simulations
R.
Lohner* & F. E. Camelli
*CFD
Lab., School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
(11:00 - 11:15) Validation
of
CFD-Urban Using Accepted Open Field and Urban Area Transport and
Dispersion Test Data
W.
J. Coirier* & S. Kim
*CFD Research Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama
(11:15 - 11:30)
Variability, Validation,
and CFD: There is No Truth!
J.
Boris*, S. Cheatham, G. Patnaik & T. Young Jr.
*Laboratory for Computational
Physics and Fluid Dynamics
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC
(11:30 - 11:45) Building-Resolved
Dispersion Simulation to Assess Rapid-Response Models
L.
J. Peltier* & E. G. Paterson
*The Applied Research
Laboratory, Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
(11:45 -12:00) Developing
Complex 3D
Terrain
Models for CFD Based Contaminant Dispersion Simulation Using
Multi-Agency GIS Data
R.
Baffour*, A. Ji & S. Aliabadi
*Department of Engineering,
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia
(12:00 - 12:15) Further improvements
in
the merged CFD and atmospheric modeling capabilities
T.
Yamada
Yamada Science & Art
Corporation
Santa Fe, New Mexico
(12:15 - 1:30) Lunch Break (on your own expense)
Special
OFCM Session 7 - Supporting Homeland Security Requirements for
Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion Modeling
Session
Chair - Robert
Dumont (Office of the
Federal Coordinator for Meteorology)
(1:30 - 1:45) Welcoming
Remarks/Set the Stage
S. P. Williamson
Federal
Coordinator for Meteorology
OFCM
(1:45 - 2:00)
Invited Talk:
Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric
Assessment Center (IMAAC)
N.
Suski
Department
of Homeland Security/Science and Technology
(2:00 - 3:15)
Panel Discussion: The Evolving Roles
and Responsibilities
of Federal Agencies in Providing Transport and Dispersion Support
Moderator:
R. Petty
Department
of Energy
Panelists: NOAA/National Weather Service
NOAA/National
Ocean Service/Office of Response and Restoration
DOD/Defense
Threat Reduction Agency
DOE/DHS/National
Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC)
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
Environmental
Protection Agency
(3:15 - 3:45) Coffee Break
(3:45 - 5:15)
Presentation
and Discussion: Federal Research Needs and
Priorities for ATD Modeling -- A Report of the OFCM-sponsored Joint
Action Group for Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion Modeling
Research and Development Plan
W.
Bach
Department
of the Army/Army Research Office
5:15 Wrap-up
5:30 Adjourn
DAY 3, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004
(7:00 - All Day) Registration (Con't)
(7:00 - 9:00)
Continental Breakfast
Session 8 - Pentagon Shield Project
Session Chair -
Thomas T. Warner (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
(8:00 - 8:15) Overview
of Pentagon Shield
Project
S.
P. Swerdlin* & P. Benda
*National Center for
Atmospheric
Research
Boulder, Colorado
(8:15 - 8:30) Boundary
Layer Wind Analysis and Prediction by Assimilation of Doppler Lidar
Wind Data
J.
Sun*, Y. Zhang, M. Xu, N. A. Crook, T. Warner & J. Weil
*National Center for
Atmospheric
Research
Boulder, Colorado
(8:30 - 8:45) Boundary Layer
Measurements
and Inter-comparisons During the Pentagon Shield Exercise
R.
Frehlich*, R. Sharman, O. Bar-or, M. Jensen, Y. Meillier & B.
Balsley
*National
Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder,
Colorado
(8:45 - 9:00) Field Experiments on
Tracer
Dispersion About the Pentagon
J.
Weil*, K. Clawson, P. Benda, J. Bowers, D. Storwold, M. Jensen, S.
Mayor & J. Knievel
*University of Colorado
Boulder,
Colorado
(9:00 - 9:15) NCAR's
New Raman-shifted
Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL), and First Results from Use in a
Densely Populated Urban Area
S.
D. Mayor*, S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley & G. S. Poulos
*National
Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder,
Colorado
(9:15 - 9:30)
Computational
Fluid Dynamics
Support for the Pentagon Shield Project
W.
J. Coirier*, D. M. Fricker, M. Furmaczyk, B. Sharman, S. Swerdlin, T.
Warner & J. Weil
*CFD Research Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama
(9:30 - 9:45) Pentagon Shield:
Experiments with a nonosillatory forward-in-time CFD code (EuLag) to
simulate flow around the Pentagon
P. K. Smolarkiewicz* & R. Sharman
*National
Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder,
Colorado
(9:45 - 10:00) Hazardous
Release Awareness for Site Protection
J.
Copeland*, J. Knievel, B. Sharman, S. Swerdlin, T. Warner & J.
Weil
*National
Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder,
Colorado
(10:00 - 10:30) Coffee Break
Session
9 - Dispersion Model Evaluation & Uncertainty
Session Chair -
James F. Bowers (Dugway Proving Ground)
(10:30 - 10:45) Verification,
Validation, and Accreditation
(VV&A) of
the Joint Effects Model (JEM)
R.
Brown
Naval
Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Dahlgren,
Virginia
(10:45 - 11:00)
Multi-Factor
Sensitivity
Analysis of HPAC Incident Source Models
J.
R. Crigler* & N. D. Pham
*Naval
Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Dahlgren, Virginia
(11:00 - 11:15)
Validation
of MESO Transport
and Dispersion Code With MADONA Lidar Data
M.
Armistead* & S. Diehl
*Naval
Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Dahlgren,
Virginia
(11:15 - 11:30)
Application
of User-Oriented MOE to Transport and
Dispersion Model Predictions of ETEX
N.
Platt*, S. Warner & J. F. Heagy
*Institute for Defense Analyses
Alexandria, Virginia
(11:30 - 11:45) Use
of Urban 2000 Field
Data to Determine whether there are Significant Differences between
the Performance Measures of Several Urban Dispersion Models
S.
Hanna* &
J. Chang
*Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts
(11:45 - 12:00) VLSTRACK
Uncertainty and
Sensitivity Studies
R.
Brown
Naval
Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Dahlgren,
Virginia
(12:00 - 12:15)
Inter-Comparison of
the AUSTAL2000 and CALPUFF Dispersion
Models Against the Kincaid (Rural) Data Set
K. H.
Yau*, R. W. Macdonald & J. L. The
*Lakes
Environmental Software Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
(12:15 - 1:30) Lunch Break (on your own expense)
Session 10 -
Dispersion Model Evaluation & Uncertainty (Con't)
Session Chair -
Steven R. Hanna (Harvard School of Public Health)
(1:30 - 1:45) Lessons
learned from operational
WMD forecasting
W.
McKeown
Naval Atlantic Meteorology
&
Oceanography Command
Norfolk,
Virginia
(1:45 - 2:00)
Investigation
of General Statistics from the Navy Operational Models
J.
E. Nachamkin* & T. F. Hogan
*Naval
Research Laboratory
Monterey,
California
Session 11 -
Experimental & Observational
Studies
(In
Memory of Dr. Robert Macdonald)
(2:00 - 2:15) Water
Flume Measurements
of
Pollutant Dispersion in Simulated Street Canyons with Planar
Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF)
R.
Macdonald (deceased)*, B. Kim, E. Savory, M. Horie & S. Okamoto
*Department of Mechanical
Engineering
University of Waterloo, Canada
(2:15 - 2:30) Over-Water
Simulant Cloud
Releases for CWA Sensor Testing
K.
Patton-Hall* & R. E. Marshall
*Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dahlgren Division
Dahlgren, Virginia
(2:30
- 2:45) Large
Domain Boundary Layer Wind Analysis Experiment
P.
E. Bieringer
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, Massachusetts
(2:45 - 3:00) Rapid
Deployment of
Meteorological Sensors
K.
Paletta
Coastal Environmental Systems,
Inc
Seattle, Washington
(3:00 - 3:15) Turbulence
Characteristics
over Oklahoma City Observed by Doppler Lidars
Y.
Wang*, D.
Ligon, C. Williamson, D. Garvey, S. Chang, C. Klipp, R. Newsom &
R. Calhoun
*U.S.
Army Research Laboratory
Adelphi, Maryland
(3:15 - 3:30)
Water
Channel Measurements of
Plume Dispersion and Concentration Fluctuations in Simulated Urban
Obstacle Arrays
T.
Hilderman*, E. Yee & R. Chong
*Coanda Research &
Development Corp.
Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada
(3:30 - 3:45) Coffee Break
Session 12 - General Dispersion Studies
Session Chair -
R. Ian Sykes (Titan Corporation)
(3:45 - 4:00)
HPAC
Re-Creation of Btk Spraying Event in Victoria, British
Columbia, 1999
R.
Babarsky* & B. Richmond
*National Ground Intelligence
Center
Charlottesville, Virginia
(4:00 - 4:15) Dispersion Modeling
Applications at the Y-12 National Security Complex
G.
Worley
The Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
(4:15 - 4:30) Enhancement
of HPAC Model Using Refined Geospatial Data
J.
Bambrick* & R. Babarsky
*National Ground Intelligence
Center
Charlottesville, Virginia
(4:30 - 4:45) Affects of
Using Forecast
Weather on the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Plume Forecasts and
Protective Action Decisions Based on D2Puff
S.
A. Stage* & S. Morales
*Innovative Emergency Management
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(4:45 - 5:00) Coupling
Receptor and
Dispersion Models with AI
S.
E. Haupt
Applied Research Laboratory,
The
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
(5:00 - 5:15) Development
of an
Atmospheric Chemistry Module for Modeling Toxic Industrial Chemicals
in SCIPUFF
M.
Henley*, V. Chynwat, K. Tavares, F. Wiseman, J. Piotrowski, & D.
Burns
*ENSCO, Inc.
Melbourne, Florida
(5:15 - 5:30) Prediction
of Remaining
Hazards After TBM Intercepts
R.
P. Sterkenburg* & H. Weber
*TNO Prins Maurits
Laboratory
2280 AA Rijswijk, The Netherlands
5:30 Adjourn (End of Conference)
Poster Presentations
P1 - Detailed numerical modeling of local atmospheric
dispersion in an idealized urban area
M.
Millez* & B. Carissimo
*CEREA
(Teaching and Research Center for
Atmospheric Environment),
Marne La Vallee, France
P2 - Implementation
of Neural Network for
Post-Processing of A Mesoscale Model Output to Improve Surface
Temperature Forecast
E.
Novakovskaia* & Z. Boybeyi
*Comprehensive
Atmospheric Modeling Group (CAMP)
School
of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax,
VA 22030
P3 - PDF modeling of atmospheric
turbulent
dispersion
P.
Franzese*, M. Cassiani and U. Giostra
*Comprehensive
Atmospheric Modeling Group (CAMP)
School
of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Fairfax,
VA 22030