Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
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<strong>The</strong> CALMET preprocessors TERREL, CTGPROC, and MAKEGEO are applied to<br />
convert the geophysical d<strong>at</strong>asets to this modeling grid, cre<strong>at</strong>ing the CALMET<br />
GEO.DAT file.<br />
Coordin<strong>at</strong>e transform<strong>at</strong>ions are applied to the source and receptor loc<strong>at</strong>ions listed in<br />
the OCD4 model runs in order to register these fe<strong>at</strong>ures to land use and terrain d<strong>at</strong>a in<br />
the GEO.DAT file. <strong>The</strong> OCD4 d<strong>at</strong>aset references all of these loc<strong>at</strong>ions to<br />
Pl<strong>at</strong>form 28A, which is loc<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>at</strong> approxim<strong>at</strong>ely (29˚43' N and 93˚14' W). This<br />
loc<strong>at</strong>ion is transformed to UTM Zone 15 (NAS-C) and all sampler loc<strong>at</strong>ions are<br />
transl<strong>at</strong>ed accordingly. <strong>The</strong> model grid of land use, an aerial photograph of the<br />
Louisiana coast in the Cameron area in the same map projection and d<strong>at</strong>um, the<br />
coastline d<strong>at</strong>a points contained in the World Vector Shoreline d<strong>at</strong>aset, and the release<br />
and sampler positions are plotted and compared to the map of sampler positions to<br />
refine the coordin<strong>at</strong>e transform<strong>at</strong>ions needed to place the samplers along the coast.<br />
This process places Pl<strong>at</strong>form 28A <strong>at</strong> (477.850, 3287.225) in UTM zone 15 (NAS-C).<br />
A difference in the shape of the coastline from th<strong>at</strong> shown on the experiment layout<br />
diagram requires an additional nonlinear adjustment of the samplers in the northsouth<br />
direction of 330m or less in the center of the arc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> resulting map of the experiment region is shown in Figure 4-1. <strong>The</strong> moist<br />
character of much of this region is reflected in the “wetland” classific<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> is<br />
assigned to over half of the land area in the grid. <strong>The</strong> sampler loc<strong>at</strong>ions follow the<br />
coastline well, both as resolved by the gridded land use and as contained in the World<br />
Vector Shoreline d<strong>at</strong>aset.<br />
Source & Receptor Characteriz<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Three source loc<strong>at</strong>ions are used in this experiment. <strong>The</strong>se are characterized as<br />
modeled in the OCD4 evalu<strong>at</strong>ion. Pl<strong>at</strong>form 28A is modeled without downwash due to<br />
the lack of significant structures on the pl<strong>at</strong>form. <strong>The</strong> bo<strong>at</strong> releases are modeled with<br />
downwash, using the bo<strong>at</strong> dimensions as a solid building with the length<br />
perpendicular to the wind. A minimal exit velocity is used to remove any momentum<br />
rise.<br />
Table 4-1<br />
Source Characteriz<strong>at</strong>ion for Cameron, LA Tracer Releases<br />
Source X* (km) Y* (km)<br />
Ht.<br />
(m)<br />
Elev.<br />
(m)<br />
Diam.<br />
(m)<br />
W<br />
(m/s)<br />
T<br />
(ºK)<br />
Hb<br />
(m)<br />
Lb<br />
(m)<br />
Pl<strong>at</strong>form 28A 477.85 3287.225 13.0 0.0 .2 0.01 270.0 0.0 0.0<br />
Bo<strong>at</strong> 2/15/1982 482.557 3290.166 13.0 0.0 .2 0.01 270.0 7.0 20.0<br />
Bo<strong>at</strong> 2/24/1982 482.524 3289.505 13.0 0.0 .2 0.01 270.0 7.0 20.0<br />
* Loc<strong>at</strong>ions are in the UTM (Zone 15N) map projection with d<strong>at</strong>um NAS-C<br />
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