Use of Salt Lake City URBAN 2000 field data to evaluate the Urban Hazard Prediction Assessment Capability (HPAC) dispersion model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 485-501

  Chang, Joseph C ^a,b   Hanna, Steven R ^c   Boybeyi, Zafer ^a   Franzese, Pasquale ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; REGIONAL PLANNING;

CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR (CBRN) MATERIALS; INTENSIVE OPERATING PERIOD (IOP); URBAN HAZARD PREDICTION ASSESSMENT CAPABILITY (HPAC); URBAN TRACERS;

URBAN PLANNING;

GAS; TERRORISM; URBAN AREA;

EID: 19144367385     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2205.1     Document Type: Article

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