2017 Urban Dispersion Virtual Workshop

Urban dispersion experiments have been extremely useful for development and testing of transport and dispersion models. However, there is an urgent need for improvement of the science of urban transport and validation of the current generation of dispersion models. New, high-resolution data in the multi-scale environment with significant gradients (e.g., land/urban/water) that characterizes major urban areas is necessary to increase accuracy and improve speed of these models as well as to develop model products that specifically meet the needs of the emergency response community. New data are also necessary to design effective real-time meteorological and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) monitoring networks necessary to support emergency response and to initialize models.

It is timely to design and execute the next generation of Urban Dispersion field programs to address these needs