TWODEE: The Health and Safety Laboratory's shallow layer model for heavy gas dispersion. Part 3: Experimental validation (Thorney Island)

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-261

  Hankin, R K S ^a   Britter, R E ^b  

^a HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heavy gas dispersion; Thorney Island; TWODEE

Indexed keywords

HEAVY GAS DISPERSION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HEALTH RISKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC MATERIALS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; EVALUATION; GAS; LABORATORY; MODEL; PREDICTION; SAFETY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALGORITHMS; ALTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WIND;

EID: 0033553458     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3894(98)00270-2     Document Type: Article

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