Author(s)

M. Barlettani & B. Jones

Abstract

The work presented in this paper is part of a program to develop a method for strategic planning during industrial emergencies. The paper discusses the simulation of the wind field, for use in pollutant dispersal predictions, over a mountainous coastal region, 100 by 100 km, in north-west Wales, UK. A simple null-divergence code (AVACTA II) has been modified to allow initialization in the absence of vertical profiles of wind. The input to the simulations is limited to data that is readily available in real time, i.e. ground level wind observations and the geostrophic wind, calculated from surface pressure cha

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