MMM SEMINAR NCAR
Professor Stephen Belcher
As resolution increases in numerical weather prediction there is a need to represent urban areas for local weather forecasting and for the impact of urban areas on weather. In addition recent terrorist activity is driving a need to model dispersion in urban areas. In this talk I will describe how mixing and transport in urban areas is naturally analyzed separately on a street scale, a neighborhood scale and then a city scale. The physical processes acting to control the mixing and transport processes at each scale will be illustrated with observations, laboratory studies and modeling efforts.
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 3:30
PM
NCAR-Foothills Laboratory
3450 Mitchell Lane