Urban Dispersion Program Overview and MID05 Field Study Summary

The Urban Dispersion Program (UDP) was a 4-year project (2004–2007) funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with additional support from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also contributed to UDP through funding a human-exposure component of the New York City (NYC) field studies in addition to supporting an EPA scientist in conducting modeling studies of NYC. The primary goal of UDP was to improve the scientific understanding of the flow and diffusion of airborne contaminants through and around the deep street canyons of NYC. The overall UDP project manager and lead scientist was Dr. Jerry Allwine of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. UDP had several accomplishments that included conducting two tracer and meteorological field studies in Midtown Manhattan.

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[15]  Brian A. Colle,et al.  Evaluation of a Mesoscale Short-Range Ensemble Forecast System over the Northeast United States , 2007 .

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[18]  Olav R. Hansen,et al.  DETAILED SIMULATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC FLOW AND DISPERSION IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTANof Five Computational Fluid Dynamics Models , 2006 .

[19]  Julia E. Flaherty,et al.  Urban Dispersion Program MSG05 Field Study: Summary of Tracer and Meteorological Measurements , 2006 .

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