Seminar
NOAA's HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling system: history, applications, and new developments
Ariel Stein, NOAA Air Resources Lab
Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 3:30 pm Mountain Time
DSRC 2A305
Abstract
HYSPLIT, developed by NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory, is one of the most widely used models for atmospheric trajectory and dispersion calculations. We present the model's historical evolution over the last 30 years from simple hand drawn back trajectories to very sophisticated computations of transport, mixing, chemical transformation, and deposition of pollutants and hazardous materials. We highlight applications of the HYSPLIT modeling system, including the simulation of atmospheric tracer release experiments, radionuclides, smoke originated from wild fires, volcanic ash, mercury, and wind-blown dust. In addition, we present the most recent model updates including in-line coupling with the WRF meteorological model, dispersion ensembles, and source attribution using minimization of a cost function.
Stein A.F.1, Rolph G.D.1, Stunder B.J.B.1, Cohen M.D.1, Ngan F.1,2, Chai T.1,2, and Draxler R.R.3
1 NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD
2 Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), College Park, MD
3 NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (retired)
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