Preliminary results from the EPRI Plume Model Validation Project: plains site. Interim report
Year: 1981
Type: report
Abstract: The EPRI Plume Model Validation Project (PMV) is a continuing effort designed to provide the data bases and analyses for rigorous operational and scientific validation of plume models. In this project the behavior and fate of buoyant plumes emitted from tall stacks are the foci of attention. To date, a network of 200 tracer samplers, 30 air quality samplers, two aircraft, two remote plume sensing devices, and a full complement of upper air and surface meteorological sensors have been used to acquire data on plume behavior and ground-level concentrations in the vicinity of an isolated power plant located in the plains of central Illinois. Similar or even more extensive measurements are planned for hilly and mountainous terrain conditions when the work at the plains' site is completed. The present report is intended as an interim and partial presentation of the first operational plume model validations completed under the PMV Project. Four Gaussian models commonly used for operational and regulatory purposes have been tested against measured ground-level plume concentrations acquired during the 1980 Spring and Summer seasons at the plains sites. Objective validation protocols and statistical methodologies developed for PMV have been employed in these tests of model performance. The results of these interim validation tests are described in this report.
DOI: 10.2172/6500499
Language: English
Topic: Wind and Air Flow Studies
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W48060277