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SECOND JOINT CONFERENCEON

APPLICATIONS OF AIRPOLLUTION METEOROLOGY

Sponsored by the

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Cosponsored by the

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ASSOCIATION

March 24-27, 1980

New Orleans, La.

and

SECOND CONFERENCEON

INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGYSponsored by the

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

March 28, 1980

New Orleans, La.

Cover: Example of dispersion of elevated buoyant plumesfrom an isolated power plant in desert complexterrain (North Muddy Mountains, Nevada)—seepages 576-582. (Photo courtesy of Paul M.Fransioli , Black S Veatch Consulting Engineers,Kansas City, Mo.)

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TABLE OF CONTENTSPage

FOREWORD i

AUTHOR INDEX xiii

LUNCHEON PANEL DISCUSSION xvii

SESSION 1: SPECIAL SOURCES

CO-CHAIRMEN: Gordon A. Beals, Consolidated Edison Co. , New York, N.Y. ; andDon S. Packnett, Stearns-Roger, Inc . , Denver, Colo.

v 1.1 DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF METHODS FOR EVALUATING HIGHWAY 17 AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION MODELS. J . R. Martinez, H. S. Javitz, R. E. Ruff,

and W. F. Dabberdt, SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif.

1.2 Withdrawn.

1.3 CASE STUDIES OF UNSTABLE KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ WAVES ALONG HIGHWAYS 7' AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON CARBON MONOXIDE DISPERSION. Roderick D. Moe,

State Dept. of Highways & Public Transportation, Austin; and Jerry A. Bullin andJohn C. Polasek, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Tex.

1.4 THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER AND CARBON 157 MONOXIDE ADJACENT TO URBAN HIGHWAYS. George C. Howroyd, Dames &

Moore, Atlanta, Ga.; and P . R. Slawson, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. , Canada.

1.5 Withdrawn.

1.6 FIELD AND MODEL COMPARISONS OF RAPID CITY TOTAL SUSPENDED 23>^ PARTICULATE. L. Ronald Johnson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology,

Rapid City, S.Dak.

1.7 PREDICTING FUGITIVE DUST EMISSION FROM SURFACE MINE HAUL ROADS. **George H. Belt, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

1.8 ASPECTS OF A SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PRESCRIBED FIRE IMPACT ON 29AIR QUALITY. Leonidas G. Lavdas, USDA Forest Service, Macon, Ga.

1.R1 MODELING AIR QUALITY IMPACTS OF PRESCRIBED FOREST BURNS. Charles 37E. Ward, J r . , Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoraa, Wash.; and Khanh T. Tran and Ralph C.Sklarew, Form & Substance, Inc . , Westlake Village, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

1.R2 COMMUTER EXPOSURE MODELING. P. B. Simmon and R. M. Patterson, SRI Interna- 44tional, Menlo Park, Calif.; and W. B. Petersen, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.(Reserve Paper)

SESSION 2: PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELS

CO-CHAIRMEN: Ralph C. Sklarew, Form & Substance, Inc . , Westlake Village, Calif.; andCharlotte J. Hopper, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

2.1 SENSITIVITY TEST, DATA REQUIREMENTS, AND ACCURACY OF A PHOTO- **CHEMICAL DISPERSION MODEL - ELSTAR (ENVIRONMENTAL LAGRANGIAN SIMU-LATOR OF TRANSPORT AND ATMOSPHERIC REACTIONS). Alan C. Lloyd,Frederick Lurmann, and Daniel Godden, Environmental Research & Technology, Inc . ,Westlake Village, Calif.

2.2 EVALUATION OF RPM-II AND SIMPLE SHORT-TERM NO2 MODEL PREDICTIONS 48USING MISTT DATA. Mark A. Yocke, Doug Stewart, Mei-Kao Liu, and C.Shepherd Burton, Systems Applications, Inc . , San Rafael, Calif.

2.3 FUTURE SENSITIVITY OF NO2 TO HYDROCARBON AND NOX CONTROLS: 53RESULTS OF PHOTOCHEMICAL DIFFUSION MODELING IN THE SAN FRANCISCOBAY AREA. R. E. De Mandel, T. E. Perardi, and L. H. Robinson, Bay Area AirQuality Management District, San Francisco; and W. H. Duewer, Lawrence LivermoreLab., Livermore, Calif.

** Manuscript not available; if received in time, it will appear in the back of the book.

4 SENSITIVITY OF AN URBAN PHOTOCHEMICAL TRAJECTORY MODEL TO VARIA- **TIONS IN AEROMETRIC AND METEOROLOGICAL INPUT DATA. J . M. Norbeck,S. Modzelewski, T . Y. Chang, and B . Weinstock, Ford Motor C o . , Dearborn , Mich.

2.5 AIR QUALITY MODEL STUDIES WITH APPLICATION FOR SOUTHEASTERN 61VIRGINIA. Dana A. Brewer , George Washington Univ . ; and Ellis E. Remsberg,Langley Research Center/NASA, Hampton, Va.

2.6 APPLICATION OF MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS (MOS) TO FORECASTS OF DAILY 69MAXIMUM SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE NORTHEAST. T e r r y L.Clark and Thomas R. Karl , EPA, Research Triangle P a rk , N . C .

2.7 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC REACTION-TRANSPORT MODELS. Alan 76M. Dunker , General Motors Research L a b s . , Warren, Mich.

2.R1 APPLICATION OF A CONJOINT MODEL TO THE STUDY OF PLUME-CITY 80INTERACTIONS. Douglas A. Stewart , Mei-Kao Liu, and Philip M. Roth, SystemsApplications, I n c . , San Rafael, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

2.R2 TIME DEPENDENCE OF AVERAGE REGIONAL SULFUR OXIDE CONCENTRATIONS. 87Lawrence I . Kleinman, Thomas A. Carney , and Ronald E. Meyers, Brookhaven NationalL a b . , Upton, N.Y. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 3: PLUME RISE STUDIES AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS

CO-CHAIRMEN: Timothy C. Spangler , North American Weather Consul tants , I n c . , Salt LakeCity, Utah; and Paul R. Harr ison, Engineering Sciences, I n c . , Arcadia, Calif.

3.1 DISPERSION IN THE VICINITY OF BUILDINGS. R. P . Hosker, J r . , Atmospheric 92Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, Oak Ridge, Tenn. (Invited Paper)

3.2 TECHNICAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE STACK HEIGHT REGULATION. **Alan H. Huber and David Stonefield, EPA, Research Triangle Pa rk , N . C .

3.3 A WIND TUNNEL STUDY OF PLUME RISE FROM TWO STACKS. Thomas J . 108Overcamp and Tsun-Chia Ku, Clemson Univ., S.C.

3.4 A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS 116OF WASTE HEAT REJECTED FROM POWER PLANTS : COMPARISON WITH FULLSCALE EXPERIMENTS. J. P. Granier, A. E. Saab, Electricite de France, Chatou, France.

3.5 Withdrawn.

3.6 A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THREE DOWNWASH MODELS UNDER NEUTRAL 121ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY. Paul Kozdar, Bill Adamski, and Barbara Anderson,Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.

3.7 COMPARISONS OF CALCULATED AND OBSERVED PLUME RISE HEIGHTS FOR 129SCRUBBED AND NON-SCRUBBED BUOYANT PLUMES. Victoria C. Sutherland andTimothy C. Spangler, North American Weather Consultants, Inc . , Salt Lake City, Utah.

3.8 MODELING PLUME RISE FROM LOW-LEVEL BUOYANT LINE AND POINT SOURCES. 133Joseph S. Scire and Lloyd L. Schulman, Environmental Research & Technology, Inc . ,Concord, Mass.

3.9 PLUME RISE MODELING. Grant C. Edwards, Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Ont., Canada. 140

3.10 SOME STUDIES OF METEOROLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS NEAR ESTUARIES. 146Mark W. Rodney, Walter A. Lyons, and Rebecca H. Calby, MESOMET, Inc . ,Chicago, 111.

3.11 PLUME RISE AND DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS AT A WEST COAST POWER 152PLANT. George H. Taylor and Nicholas E. Graham, North American Weather Consultants,Inc . , Goleta; and Robert J. Farber, Southern California Edison Co., Rosemead, Calif.


12 DISPERSION UNDER BOUNDARY LAYER MODIFICATION FOR COLD AIR 157ADVECTION OVER A WARM LAKE. P. K. Misra and G. Van Volkenburgh,Ontario Ministry of the Environment; and A. C. McMillan, Ontario Hydro,Toronto, Ont., Canada.

3.13 FORMATION AND GROWTH OF THE NOCTURNAL INVERSION LAYER AT AN 165URBAN AND RURAL LOCATION. James M. Godowitch and Jason K. S. Ching,EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

3.14 SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA URBAN PLUME STUDY DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 173AND MEASUREMENT RESULTS. David S. McDougal and Gerald L. Gregory, LangleyResearch Center/NASA, Hampton, Va.

3.15 REGIONAL MODELLING OF SO2 TRANSPORT BY THE USE OF LOCAL AND 180REMOTE SENSORS. N. D. van Egmond, National Institute of Public Health, TheNetherlands; and J. H. Davies and M. M. Millan, Barringer Research Ltd., Rexdale,Ont., Canada.

3.R1 A SIMPLE METHOD OF VALIDATION OF DISPERSION MODELS USING ACOUSTIC **SOUNDER. J. S. Touma, Consumers Power Co. , Jackson, Mich.; and D. Rai, AppliedEnvironmental Research, Inc. , Palatine, 111. (Reserve Paper)

3.R2 AN EVALUATION OF THE BRIGGS DOWNWASH FORMULATION. George C. 185Howroyd and Paul D. Gutfreund, Dames & Moore, Atlanta, Ga. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 4: LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION

CO-CHAIRMEN": Darryl Randerson, Nuclear Support Office, NWS/NOAA, Las Vegas, Nev. ;and John E. Pearson, Consulting Meteorologist, Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

4.1 MODELING LONG RANGE TRANSPORT AND DIFFUSION. Arthur Bass, Environ- 193mental Research & Technology, Inc . , Concord, Mass. (Invited Paper)

4.2 INITIAL EVALUATION OF REGIONAL TRANSPORT AND SUBREGIONAL DISPER- 216SION MODELS FOR SULFUR DIOXIDE AND FINE PARTICULATES. Brand L.Niemann, Allan A. Hirata, Barbara R. Hall, Michael T. Mills, and Peter M. Mayerhofer,Teknekron Research, Inc . , Berkeley, Calif.; and Lowell F. Smith, EPA, Washington, D.C.

4.3 INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGES OF AIRBORNE SULFUR POLLUTION AND DEPOSITION 225IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. Chandrakant M. Bhumralkar, Warren B. Johnson,Robert L. Mancuso, Richard A. Thuillier, Daniel E. Wolf, and Kenneth C. Nitz, SRIInternational, Menlo Park, Calif.

4.4 EXAMINATION OF SURFACE REMOVAL AND HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT OF 232ATMOSPHERIC SULFUR ON A REGIONAL SCALE. Jack D. Shannon, ArgonneNational Lab., Argonne, 111.

4.5 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A REGIONAL MODEL TO SIMULATE AT- 236MOSPHERIC CONCENTRATIONS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE AND SULFATE. Thomas F.Lavery, Ronald L. Baskett, James W. Thrasher, Nicholas J. Lordi, Alan C. Lloyd, andGeorge M. Hidy, Environmental Research ft Technology, Inc., Westlake Village, Calif.

4.6 THE DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL EULERIAN/ 248LAGRANGIAN AIR POLLUTION MODEL. C. A. Jacobs and R. J. Ball, The Centerfor the Environment and Man, Inc. , Hartford, Conn.

4.7 THE EFFECT OF VEGETATION ON AIR QUALITY: THE VALUE OF FOREST 253VEGETATION AS A FILTER FOR INDUSTRIAL SOURCES OF AIR POLLUTANTS.C. E. Murphy, J r . , E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Aiken, S .C. ; and J. O. Ares,Aluar Alumink) Argentino SAIC, Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

4.8 THE USE OF TRAJECTORY MODELS AND EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS IN 258ESTIMATING THE OZONE IMPACT FROM URBAN AREA EMISSIONS. Joseph RVisalM, S. Trivikrama Rao, and John S. Wilson, N.Y. State Dept. of EnvironmentalConservation, Albany, N.Y.

Manuscript not available; if received in time, it will appear in the back of the book.

9 EVALUATION OF A MODIFIED GAUSSIAN PLUME MODEL FOR TRAVEL 265DISTANCES 25-150 KM. J . C. Huang, E. I. du Pont de Nemours * Co., Aiken, S.C.

4.10 CASE STUDIES OF HORIZONTAL SPREAD OF 8 5Kr AT 100 KM DOWNWIND. 272A. H. Weber, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Aiken, S.C.

4.11 ERROR ESTIMATES OF CALCULATED AIR CONCENTRATIONS FROM A MESO- 275SCALE TRAJECTORY MODEL. Roland R. Draxler, Air Resources Labs./NOAA,Silver Spring, Md.

4.12 RAM VERSUS MESOSCALE MODELING: EFFECTS ON PSD CLASS I AREAS. 279Robert R. Bushey and Robert L. Eriksen, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck,N.Dak.; and Timothy L. Waldron, Rockwell International, Creve Coeur, Mo.

4.13 RESULTS FROM TWO MODELS FOR THE LONG-DISTANCE DRIFT AND DRY 285DEPOSITION OF AN INSECTICIDE CLOUD ONTO A FOREST. R. S. Crabbe,National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa; and J . D. Reid, Atmospheric Environ-ment Service, Downsview, On t . , Canada.

4.14 A NEW APPLICATION OF THE PNL LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT MODEL TO 291ASSESS THE AIR QUALITY IMPACTS OF EMITTED FINE PARTICLES. W. J .Eadie, W. E. Davis, and W. F. Sandusky, Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs. , Richland,Wash.; and R. H. Ball, Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C.

4.R1 MULTI-DAY TRANSPORT AND PHOTOCHEMICAL SIMULATION FOR IMPACT *•ANALYSIS OF FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS. Ralph C. Sklarew, Khanh T. Tran, andM. Alan Joncich, Form & Substance, Inc . , Westlake Village, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

4.R2 LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF 500 MB TRAJECTORIES OF 60-DAY DURA- 295TION. William P . Elliott, Jerome L. Heffter, and James K. Angell, Air Resources Labs . /NOAA, Silver Spring, Md. (Reserve Paper)

4.R3 A MESOSCALE TRANSPORT AND DISPERSION MODEL FOR INDUSTRIAL PLUMES. 301I. T. Wang, Rockwell International, Newbury Park, Calif.; T. L. Waldron, RockwellInternational, Creve Coeur, Mo.; and R. R. Bushey, Basin Electric Power Cooperative,Bismarck, N.Dak. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 5: LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION (Continued)

CO-CHAIRMEN: David C. Guzewich, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency,Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; and Sumner Barr, Los AlamosScientific Lab. , Los Alamos, N.Mex.

5.1 DIAGNOSTIC MODELING OF SUMMERTIME SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE 307NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Perry J . Samson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Mich.

5.2 ANALYSIS OF SURE AIRCRAFT SULFATE DATA. Robert D. Bornstein and William 313T. Thompson, San Jose State Univ., and Systems Applications, Inc . , San Rafael, Calif.

5.3 TRANSPORT OF SULFUR OXIDES WITHIN THE LOS ANGELES SEA BREEZE/ 320LAND BREEZE CIRCULATION SYSTEM. Glen R. Cass and Fredrick H. Shair,California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

5.4 A MODEL VERIFICATION AND PREDICTION STUDY OF SO2/SO4 = CONCENTRA- 328TIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. William R. Goodin, D. Ian Austin,and Akshai K. Runchal, Dames & Moore, Los Angeles, Calif.

5.5 INVESTIGATIONS OF HIGH SULFUR OXIDES POLLUTION EPISODES IN SAN 334JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. David W. Wilbur and Michael W. Chan, AeroViron-ment, Inc . , Pasadena, Calif.

5.6 SENSITIVITY OF A REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODEL TO METEOROLOGICAL 338PARAMETERS. Michael A. Wojcrik, Systems Applications, Inc . , San Rafael, Calif.


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SESSION 6: VISIBILITY AND ACID PRECIPITATION

CO-CHAIRMEN: Karl Zeller, Environmental Research & Technology, Inc. , Ft. Collins, Colo.;and Donald K. A. Gillies, Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Ont., Canada.

6.1 MODELING VISIBILITY. Douglas A. Latimer, Robert W. Bergstrom, Clark D. Johnson, 346and James P. KiDus, Systems Applications, Inc. , San Rafael, Calif. (Invited Paper)

6.2 A TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING VISIBILITY IMPAIRMENT FROM FINE **PARTICULATES. Steven L. Eigsti, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N . C ; and WilliamC. Malm, EPA, Las Vegas, Nev.

6.3 UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RADIATIVE 362TRANSFER THEORY WITHIN VISIBILITY MODELS. Ronald G. Isaacs andHaluk Ozkaynak, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. , Cambridge, Mass.(Paper 6.R1 has been combined with this paper.)

6.4 ANNUAL AND SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN LIGHT POLLUTION AT LICK 370OBSERVATORY. David A. Marks and Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ.,Calif.

6.5 ADVECTION FOG FORMATION AND AEROSOLS PRODUCED BY COMBUSTION- 375ORIGINATED AIR POLLUTION. R. J. Hung and G. S. Liaw, Univ. of Alabama;and O. H. Vaughan, J r . , Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA, Huntsville, Ala.

6.6 ANALYSIS OF REDUCED-VISIBILITY EPISODES OVER THE EASTERN UNITED 385STATES. James G. Edinger, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Calif.

6.7 AN OVERVIEW OF EPA'S ATMOSPHERIC ACID DEPOSITION MONITORING AND *•RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. Joe Wisniewski, MITRE Corp., McLean Va.; and DennisTirpak, EPA, Washington, D.C.

6.8 PREDICTIONS OF IN-CLOUD CONVERSION RATES OF SO2 TO SO4 BASED UPON 389A SIMPLE CHEMICAL AND DYNAMICAL MODEL. Bryan C. Scott, Battelle PacificNorthwest Labs., Richland, Wash.

6.R1 See paper 6.3.

6.R2 REGIONAL TRANSPORT, TRANSFORMATION, AND DEPOSITION OF ATMOSPHERIC 397POLLUTANTS AND ACID PRECIPITATION. Mei-Kao Liu and C. Shepherd Burton,Systems Applications, Inc., San Rafael, Calif.; Donald Henderson, National Park Service,Denver, Colo.; and Jerome F. Thomas, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

6.R3 Withdrawn.

6.R4 VISIBILITY MODELING IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. Allan J. Fabrick and Peter J. Haas, 404Radian Corp., Austin, Tex. (Reserve Paper)

6.R5 CALCULATION OF MULTIPLE SCATTERED RADIATION IN CLEAN ATMOSPHERES. 410Robert W. Bergstrom and Betsy L. Bab son, Systems Applications, Inc. , San Rafael;and Thomas P. Ackerman, Ames Research Center/NASA, Moffett Field, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 7: NEW AND IMPROVED MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION

CO-CHAIRMEN: Steven R. Hanna, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA,Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Harry Moses, Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C.

7.1 A MODEL FOR CHARACTERIZING TRANSPORT AND DIFFUSION OF AIR 416POLLUTION IN THE BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENT. William D. Ohmstede andErnest B. Stenmark, U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Lab., White Sands MissileRange, N.Mex.

•* Manuscript not available; if received in time it will appear in the back of the book.

2 SUB-GRID SCALE PLUME DISPERSION IN COARSE RESOLUTION MESOSCALE 424MODELS. Richard T. McNider, Alabama Air Pollution Control Commission, Montgomery,Ala.; Steven R. Hanna, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, Oak Ridge,Tenn. ; and Roger A. Pielke, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

7.3 ASYMPTOTIC SIMILARITY MODELS OF DIFFUSION IN THE ATMOSPHERIC **BOUNDARY LAYER. Bryan R. Kerman, Atmospheric Environment Service, Downsview,Ont . , Canada.

7.4 A RANDOM WALK ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODEL FOR COMPLEX TERRAIN 430AND METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. Akshai K. Runchal, Dames & Moore, LosAngeles, Calif.

7.5 ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE PREDICTION WITH A NONCLASSICAL SPLIT FINITE 438ELEMENT ALGORITHM. A. J . Baker and M. O. Soliman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville,Tenn. ; and D. W. Pepper, E. I. du Pont de Nemours fc Co., Aiken, S.C.

7.6 A STATISTICAL PLUME MODEL WITH FIRST-ORDER DECAY. Thomas J. Overcamp, 446Clemson Univ., S.C.

7.7 A METHOD FOR ANALYSING TURBULENT DISPERSION PROBLEMS WITH 450ATTENTION PAID TO SHIFTING CONCENTRATION STRUCTURES. Per B. Storebo,Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway.

7.8 A COMPARISON OF BASIC GAUSSIAN, GRID POINT, AND SEGMENT CALCULA- •*TION APPROACHES TO PLUME DISPERSION. Savithri Machiraju and Michael W. Chan,AeroVironment, Inc . , Pasadena, Calif.

7.R1 PLUME BEHAVIORS AT ROUGH BOUNDARIES. E. Y. T. Kuo, Envirosphere/Ebasco 455Services Inc . , New York, N.Y. (Reserve Paper)

7.R2 A HIGHLY ACCURATE NUMERICAL SCHEME FOR DISPERSION OF ATMOSPHERIC **POLLUTANTS. H. N. Lee, Brookhaven National Lab. , Upton, N.Y. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 8: COMPLEX TERRAIN-I

CO-CHAIRMEN: Loren W. Crow, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Denver, Colo.; andGene Woolridge, Utah State Univ., Logan, Utah.

8.1 THE EPA PROGRAM FOR DISPERSION MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR SOURCES IN 465COMPLEX TERRAIN. George C. Holzworth, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

8.2 THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES IN COMPLEX TERRAIN 469(ASCOT) PROGRAM. Marvin H. Dickerson and Paul H. Gudiksen, Lawrence LivermoreLab. , Livermore, Calif.

8.2a SOME PRACTICAL ESTIMATES OF DRAINAGE WIND DEPTH AND INTENSITY. • •Gary A. Briggs, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

8.2b EFFECTIVE TRANSPORT VELOCITY AND PLUME ELONGATION IN NOCTURNAL 474VALLEY WIND FIELDS. William E. Clements, Sumner Barr, and Malcolm M. Fowler,Los Alamos Scientific Lab. , N.Mex.

8.2e A COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE AT THE WALL 480AND IN THE MIDDLE OF A VALLEY. Sumner Barr, William E. Clements, andS. Kerry Wilson, Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N.Mex.

8.2d NOCTURNAL DRAINAGE WIND CHARACTERISTICS IN TWO CONVERGING AIR 484SHEDS. Teymoor Gedayloo, William E. Clements, Sumner Barr , and John A. Archuleta,Los Alamos Scientific Lab. , N.Mex.

8.2e EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSES OF DRAINAGE FLOW 488OBSERVATIONS DURING THE FIRST ASCOT FIELD STUDY. R. P. Hosker, K. S.Rao, and G. A. Briggs, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, Oak Ridge,Tenn.


2f DRAINAGE WIND OBSERVATIONS USING NEUTRAL-LIFT BALLOONS. C. J. Nappo, 495S. R. Hanna, and H. F. Snodgrass, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA,Oak Ridge, Tenn.

8.2g A NONSTATIONARY NOCTURNAL DRAINAGE FLOW MODEL. K. S. Rao and H. F. 499Snodgrass, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

8.2h AIR CIRCULATIONS OVER A GAUSSIAN-SHAPED VALLEY. Tetsuji Yamada, Argonne 505National Lab., 111.

8.3 THE USE OF MODELED MIXING HEIGHT DATA WITH THE BOX MODEL APPLIED 510TO MOUNTAIN VALLEYS. David Greenland, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

8.4 URBAN VALLEY AIR POLLUTION. Keith D. Hage, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., 515Canada.

8.5 WINTERTIME DISPERSION PROCESSES IN THE LAKE TAHOE BASIN. Lucy 520Lanham, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif.

8.6 A TIME-DEPENDENT MODEL OF TEMPERATURE INVERSION STRUCTURE IN 526MOUNTAIN VALLEYS. C. David Whiteman and Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State Univ.,Ft. Collins, Colo.

8.7 FIELD INVESTIGATION OF DRAINAGE WINDS USING TRACER GAS TECHNIQUES. 532Roger A. Nelson and Stanley R. Brown, Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc . , Wheat Ridge, Colo.

8.8 SIMULATION OF POLLUTANT DISPERSION IN THE MOUNTAIN WIND. R. L. 540Petersen and J. E. Cermak, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins; and R. A. Nelson,Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. , Wheat Ridge, Colo.

8.9 THE EFFECT OF DYNAMIC BLOCKING ON THE FORMATION OF STAGNANT AIR 546IN MOUNTAIN TERRAIN. Kapin Tan and Verne Leverson, Colorado State Univ., Ft.Collins, Colo.

SESSION 9: COMPLEX TERRAIN-II

CO-CHAIRMEN: Bruce A. Egan, Environmental Research & Technology, Inc . , Lexington,Mass.; and A. Roger Greenway, Enviroplan, Inc . , Rutherford, N.J .

9.1 BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW AND DIFFUSION OVER A 2-D LOW HILL. L. Y. 551Courtney and S. P. S. Arya, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, N.C.

9.2 A SIMPLE TWO-LAYER MODEL FOR STABLE AIR FLOW ACROSS TERRAIN 559FEATURES. Richard D. Rowe, Univ. of Calgary, Alta., Canada.

9.3 COMPLEX TERRAIN INFLUENCE ON aQ AND a AT TVA'S WIDOWS CREEK STEAM 567PLANT. Steven R. Hanna, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab./NOAA, OakRidge, Tenn.

9.4 CONCENTRATIONS IN THE LEE OF A MOUNTAIN FOR STABLE AIRFLOW OVER 571A MOUNTAIN RIDGE. Yean Lee, Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. , Boston, Mass.

9.5 USER'S GUIDE FOR THE APPLICATION OF A VARIABLE TRAJECTORY PLUME **SEGMENT MODEL. Chester H. Huang and R. L. Drake, Battelle Pacific NorthwestLabs., Richland, Wash.

9.6 EXAMPLES OF DISPERSION OF ELEVATED BUOYANT PLUMES FROM AN 576ISOLATED POWER PLANT IN DESERT COMPLEX TERRAIN. Paul M. Fransioli,Black ft Veatch Consulting Engineers, Kansas City, Mo.

9.7 MODIFICATION OF THE EPA CRSTER MODEL FOR USE IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. 583R. N. Swanson, J . C. Yingst, J . Hsiung, and M. L. Mooney, Pacific Gas and ElectricCo. , San Francisco, Calif.

9.8 VALIDATION OF ALTERNATE TURBULENCE TYPING MODELS FOR ESTIMATING 586AIR QUALITY EFFECTS OF COASTAL SOURCES NEAR ROUGH TERRAIN. JohnS. Lague, Eileen M. Irvine, and Thomas F. Lavery, Environmental Research & Technology,Inc . , Westlake Village, Calif.

** Manuscript not available; if received in time^it will appear in the back of the book.

9 VALIDATION OF ALTERNATIVE GAUSSIAN PLUME PARAMETERS FOR AN 593ISOLATED SOURCE IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. Kenneth E. Pickering andRobert C. Koch, GEOMET, Inc. , Gaithersburg, Md.

9.10 MODEL COMPARISONS FOR THE HIGH TERRAIN MONITORING PROGRAM. 600Robert M. Iwanchuk, Gale F. Hoffnagle, Cosmo J. Vaudo, and David M. Shea,Environmental Research & Technology, Inc. , Concord, Mass.; and Joel T. Ferrill,Environmental Research & Technology, Inc. , Ft. Collins, Colo.

9.R1 FROUDE NUMBER-DEPENDENT PLUME MODELING IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. **Gale F. Hoffnagle, Bruce A. Egan, and Arthur Bass, Environmental Research &Technology, Inc. , Concord, Mass. (Reserve Paper)

9.R2 NUMERICAL WIND FIELD MODEL VALIDATION IN COMPLEX TERRAIN WITH 608APPLICATION TO POLLUTANT TRANSPORT. William M. Porch, LawrenceLivermore Lab., Livermore, Calif. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 10: VALIDATION OF SHORT-TERM MODELS

CO-CHAIRMEN: Lawrence E. Niemeyer, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N . C ; andAmiram Roffman, Energy Impact Associates, Pittsburgh, Pa.

10.1 VALIDATION AND PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AIR QUALITY MODELS. Norman E. 614Bowne, TRC-Environraental Consultants, Inc. , Wethersfield, Conn. (Invited Paper)

10.2 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A DISPERSION MODEL FOR AMBIENT 627AIR QUALITY EVALUATION. John H. Christiansen and Hua Wang, Dames & Moore,Park Ridge, 111.; and Keith Parker, Wisconsin Power and Light Co. , Madison, Wis.

10.3 COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND PREDICTED NORMALIZED AIR CONCENTRATIONS 634FOR 56-M RELEASES OF FLUORESCEIN PARTICLES. Charles W. Miller, Craig A.Little, and Sherri J. Cotter, Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn.

10.4 A COMPARISON OF PREDICTIONS FROM STANDARD SHORT-TERM AIR QUALITY 642MODELS WITH OBSERVED TRACER DISPERSION. R. J. Londergan, D. R. Murray,N. E. Bowne, and H. Borenstein, TRC-Environmental Consultants, Inc . , Wethersfield,Conn.

10.5 COMPARISONS OF PREDICTIONS WITH OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSES OF 650OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH SHORT-TERM POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONSMONITORED IN THE VICINITY OF SOURCES WITH TALL STACKS. Dennis A.Trout, EPA, Chicago, 111.

10.6 MODEL PREDICTABILITY WITH REFERENCE TO CONCENTRATIONS ASSOCIATED 658WITH POINT SOURCES. A. Venkatram, Ontario Ministry of the Environment,Toronto, Ont. , Canada.

10.7 COMPARISON STUDY OF MEASURED AND PREDICTED CONCENTRATIONS WITH **THE RAM MODEL AT TWO POWER PLANTS ALONG LAKE ERIE. Howard Ellis,Gerald Dalzell, and Peter Liu, Enviroplan, Inc. , Rutherford, N.J.

10.8 DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY TO 663EVALUATE THE REALTIME AIR QUALITY MODEL (RAM). Ronald E. Ruff andHarold S. Javitz, SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif.; and John S. Irwin, EPA,Research Triangle Park, N.C.

10.9 CRITICAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR ELEVATED 3-HOUR AND 24-HOUR 670SO2 CONCENTRATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS.Michael T. Mills, Teknekron Research, Inc. , Waltham, Mass.; and Russell F. Lee, EPA,Research Triangle Park, N.C.

10. R A SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF URBAN SCALE AIR 677POLLUTION MODELS-PRELIMINARY STEPS. Gregory J. McRae and James W.Tilden, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (Reserve Paper)


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SESSION 11: REGULATORY ISSUES

CO-CHAIRMEN: Jerry Pell, Dept. of Energy; and James Fairobent, NationalCommission on Air Quality, Washington, D.C.

11.1 AIR QUALITY MODELING: JUDICIAL, LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REAC- 683TIONS. Bruce M. Kramer, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, Tex. ; and Douglas G. Fox,Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, Colo. (Invited Paper)

11.2 CONSISTENCY IN THE USE OF AIR QUALITY MODELS. Joseph A. Tikvart, 687James L. Dicke, and Dean A. Wilson, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

11.3 THE STABILITY DETERMINATION METHOD: A CASE FOR UNIFORM PSD 692MODELING. Leon Sedefian and Edward Bennett, N.Y. State Dept. of EnvironmentalConservation, Albany, N.Y.

11.4 INADEQUACIES OF METEOROLOGICAL DATA REQUIREMENTS AND ASSOCIATED 696MODEL OUTPUT FOR THE EPA CRSTER MODEL. David R. Maxwell, NUS Corp. ,Denver; and John G. Moldovan, Environmental Engineer, Conifer, Colo.

11.5 ON THE NON-UTILITY OF TURBULENCE TYPING SCHEMES. Lowell D. Van Vleck, 703Tucson Electric Power Co. , Arizona.

11.6 DIFFUSION MODELING TO EVALUATE AN INTERMITTENT SOURCE FOR COMPLI- 707ANCE WITH THE PSD INCREMENTS. John S. Lague and Haluk Ozkaynak, Environ-mental Research & Technology, Inc . , Westlake Village, Calif.

11.7 INCORPORATING THE SULFUR VARIABILITY OF COAL IN AIR QUALITY 710MODELING. Lloyd L. Schulman and Dean Vickers, Environmental Research & Technology,Inc . , Concord, Mass.

11.8 THE ROLE OF PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELS IN THE DESIGN OF AIR POLLUTION **CONTROL STRATEGIES. Gregory J. McRae, James W. Tilden, and John H. Seinfeld,California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

11.R1 A RAPID EVALUATION PROCEDURE FOR INTEGRATING AIR QUALITY CON- 715SIDERATIONS INTO URBAN HOUSING POLICY. Eric Hansen and James Nolan,URS Co. , Seattle, Wash. (Reserve Paper)

11.R2 A GENERIC ANALYSIS OF THE GOOD ENGINEERING PRACTICE (GEP) STACK 719HEIGHT AND PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION (PSD) REGULA-TIONS FOR NEW POWER PLANTS. Frederick W. Lipfert, Brookhaven National Lab.,Upton, N.Y. (Reserve Paper)

SESSION 12: OPTIMIZING APPLICATIONS AND ESTIMATING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

CO-CHAIRMEN: Louis Shenfeld, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto, Ont . ,Canada; and Robert D. Bomstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, Calif.

12.1 DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A METHODOLOGY FOR AIR QUALITY 727MONITORING NETWORK DESIGN. M. K. Liu and G. E. Moore, Systems Applications,Inc. , San Rafael, Calif.

12.2 SOME STATISTICAL METHODS OF SELECTION OF OPTIMAL AIR QUALITY 734MONITORING NETWORKS. Gary E. Moore, Systems Applications, Inc . , San Rafael,Calif.

12.3 MODELING OF SO2 CONCENTRATION PATTERNS IN BERLIN (WEST) USING 742LINKED PBL AND DISPERSION MODELS. D. Heimann, R. Stern, B. Strobel,and B. Timm, Freie Univ., Berlin, West Germany.

12.4 OPTIMIZATION OF GAUSSIAN MODELS TO FIND SHORT-TERM PEAK CON- 746CENTRATIONS. Clifford F. Cole, TRC-Environmental Consultants, Inc . , Englewood,Colo.


5 SENSITIVITY OF SINGLE-SOURCE (CRSTER) MODEL PREDICTIONS TO VARIA- 752TIONS IN INPUT DATA AND METHODS OF APPLICATION. Lawrence A. Georgeand Joseph C. Lowery, Florida Dept. of Environmental Regulation, Tallahassee, Fla.

12.6 METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS CAUSING SO2 EVENTS FROM A POINT SOURCE 760WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING. Mark M. Strosher and RoyPeters, Environmental Protection Service, Edmonton, Alta., Canada.

12.7 ESTIMATIONS OF HEAT AND MOMENTUM FLUXES NEAR THE GROUND. 764I. T. Wang and P. C. Chen, Rockwell International, Newbury Park, Calif.

12.8 LOGARITHMIC WIND PROFILE PARAMETERS APPLIED TO AIR QUALITY 770ASSESSMENT STUDIES. C. Reed Hodgin, Midwest Research Institute, KansasCity, Mo.

12.9 ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TURNER'S STABILITY CLASSIFICA- 777TIONS AND WIND SPEED AND DIRECT MEASURMENTS OF NET RADIATION.Hugh J. Williamson and Rick R. Krenmayer, Radian Corp., Austin, Tex. '

12.10 A PHYSICALLY REALISTIC METHOD OF CALCULATING MIXING HEIGHTS OVER 781RURAL AREAS FOR USE IN ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELS. Alan D.Goldman, United Engineers & Constructors, Inc . , Boston, Mass.

12.11 TRANSPORT LAYER DEPTH CALCULATIONS. Jerome L. Heffter, Air Resources 787Labs./NOAA, Silver Spring, Md.

12.12 AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF TOWER WINDS AND TURBULENCE FOR THE 792SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR FACILITY. David B. Gilhousen, Techniques Develop-ment Lab./NOAA, Silver Spring, Md.; and M. M. Pendergast, E. I. du Pont deNemours & Co., Aiken, S.C.

12.13 ON THE USE OF OFFSITE METEOROLOGICAL DATA TO CALCULATE RELATIVE 797CONCENTRATIONS. C. E. Dungey and J . E. Carson, Argonne National Lab. , 111.;S. Cohen, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; and K. A. Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technol-ogy, Atlanta, Ga.

12.14 STABILITY CLIMATOLOGY FROM ON-SITE WIND DATA. Howard Reiquam, El Paso 803Natural Gas Co., Tex.

12.R A METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING THE AIR QUALITY IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL 809SOURCES, George J . Schewe, EPA, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (Reserve Paper)

R-l STUDY OF AN INERT POLLUTANT TRANSFER CASE USING A NUMERICAL 815MESO-SCALE MODEL. C Blondin, Meteorologie EERM/GMA, Boulogne-Billancourt,France. (Reserve Paper)

SECOND CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGY (Printed on tinted pages.)

SESSION 1: THE WORK OF INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGISTS

CHAIRMAN: Cornelius J. Callahan, MESOMET, Inc . , Oxon Hill, Md.

THE VALUE OF STANDARDIZATION IN METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS. 817Thomas J . Lockhart, CCM, Meteorology Research, Inc . , Altadena, Calif.

APPLICATION OF WIND DATA TOWARD REVISION OF THE ANSI WIND 821LOADS STANDARD. Hugh W. Church, CCM, Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, N.Mex.

WHAT'S IN A WIND STUDY? William H. Haggard, CCM, Climatological Consulting 825Corp. , Asheville, N.C.

CONSTRUCTING AND USING A "MANUFACTURED" DATA BASE. Dennis C. 831Perryman, CCM, Oceanroutes, Inc . , Palo Alto, Calif.

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SESSION 2: INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGISTS AT WORK

CHAIRMAN: Robert L. Carnahan, CCM, National Weather Service/NO AA, Silver Spring, Md.

THE ROLE OF AN AIR QUALITY METEOROLOGIST IN AN ARCHITECTURAL/ 836ENGINEERING FIRM. Joseph Laznow, CCM, United Engineers & Constructors, I n c . ,Boston, Mass.

METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES SUPPORT TO THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY. 841Clyde D . Martin, CCM, Rockwell International, Downey, Calif.

OPERATION OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVATORIES BY THE 847INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGIST. John T. Walser, CCM, Weather Consultants, I n c . ,Santa Rosa, Calif.

SESSION 3: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

CHAIRMAN: Arlo W. Gam bell, J r . , CCM, Sears, Roebuck & C o . , Chicago, 111.

INDUSTRIAL VIEWPOINT-CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE. Perry W. Fisher, Dames 852& Moore, Park Ridge, 111.

AN EVALUATION OF THE AMS CERTIFIED CONSULTING METEOROLOGIST 855PROGRAM FROM A RECENT APPLICANT. David R. Maxwell, CCM, NUS Corp. ,Denver, Colo.

PROSPECTS FOR INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGY IN THE 1980's. R. L. Carnahan, 858CCM, National Weather Service/NOAA, Silver Spring, Md.

SESSION 4: MORE INDUSTRIAL METEOROLOGISTS AT WORK

CHAIRMAN: Michael F. McEndree, Car gill, I n c . , Minneapolis, Minn.

METEOROLOGICAL CONSULTING TO METEOROLOGISTS. John C. Freeman, CCM, 861Institute for Storm Research, Houston, Tex .

SMOKE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF MONTANA. Aaron L. Zimmerman, CCM, 863Air Quality Bureau, Missoula, Mont.

COPING AS A CONSULTING CLIMATOLOGIST. Robert O. Weedfall, CCM, 866Morgantown, W.Va.

HOW GOOD ARE OUR BEST FORECASTS? Wallace E. Ho well, CCM, U . S . Dept. 869of the Interior, Denver, Colo.

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