Model chain for buoyant plume dispersion

Andrea Bisignano; Luca Mortarini; Enrico Ferrero; Stefano Alessandrini

doi:10.1504/IJEP.2017.089406

Model chain for buoyant plume dispersion

Andrea Bisignano, Luca Mortarini, Enrico Ferrero, Stefano Alessandrini

Weather Systems and Assessment Program

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Abstract

A new original software interface between the WRF mesoscale meteorological model and the SPRAYWEB dispersion model has been developed. The model chain was designed such a highly responsive tool for risk assessment and emergency-response purposes. The model interface reads the wind and temperature fields provided by WRF and interpolates them on a fixed-in-Time grid, which is the input to the dispersion model. Furthermore, it calculates the turbulence-parameter vertical profiles, based on the surface-layer data provided by WRF. In this work we simulate the dispersion of a high-buoyancy plume. The model chain performances were tested against the Bull-Run dataset.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	200-213
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Environment and Pollution
Volume	62
Issue number	2-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEP.2017.089406
State	Published - 2017

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Lagrangian model
Plume rise
Pollution dispersion

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