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> performance of two CALPUFF configur<strong>at</strong>ions (no turbulence advection and<br />
advection with a timescale of 800s) are intercompared using runs made with a<br />
minimum σ v = 0.37 m/s, and all 4 mixing height combin<strong>at</strong>ions in CALMET. Peak<br />
concentr<strong>at</strong>ions paired in time but not space (1 per experiment) for eight of the nine<br />
Oresund experiments are processed to form the geometric performance measures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> experiment from May 30 is excluded because it contains very few sampling<br />
points and the D<strong>at</strong>a Bank Report (Mortensen and Gryning, 1989) specifically warns<br />
th<strong>at</strong> the northern part of the tracer plume was not sampled.<br />
Results of applying the model evalu<strong>at</strong>ion software, including 95% confidence limits,<br />
are listed in Table 4-21 and Figure 4-13. <strong>The</strong> primary fe<strong>at</strong>ure of the results is the<br />
dram<strong>at</strong>ic improvement obtained with the turbulence advection formul<strong>at</strong>ion. Without<br />
it, the observ<strong>at</strong>ions are overpredicted for most Barseback releases so there is a<br />
substantial mean bias (more than a factor of two overprediction). With turbulence<br />
advection, MG is close to 1. <strong>The</strong> confidence interval is large here, in part because<br />
there are so few d<strong>at</strong>a points (8) and the d<strong>at</strong>aset includes cases of both factor-of-two<br />
overpredictions and underpredictions. <strong>The</strong> secondary fe<strong>at</strong>ure is the improvement in<br />
MG when the B<strong>at</strong>chvarova – Gryning convective mixing height model is selected<br />
(IMIXH=2). Note th<strong>at</strong> this improvement is st<strong>at</strong>istically significant <strong>at</strong> the 95%<br />
confidence level.<br />
Based on these measures, the prototype model for OCS applic<strong>at</strong>ions should be<br />
modified to include turbulence advection. With this addition, it has a small mean<br />
bias toward overprediction, and exhibits sc<strong>at</strong>ter th<strong>at</strong> is typical in th<strong>at</strong> it is close to a<br />
factor of two.<br />
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