__NOTOC__ This page is out of date and should be considered an historic reference only The UK Dispersion Modelling Bureau was part of the

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, the UK's national weather and meteorological service. The meteorologists in the bureau are among the UK's leading experts in areas such: *

meteorology Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting. The study of meteorology dates back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did no ...

air quality Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. There are many different types ...

studies and forecasting * air pollution dispersion modelling * industrial emissions

Consultancy services

The bureau consisted of a team of air quality specialists dedicated to providing advice, support, and consultancy service to industry, government, local authorities and private consultants. The team had particular expertise with long and short range

atmospheric pollution dispersion modelling Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer programs that include algorithms to solve the mathematical equations that govern the pollutant ...

using the

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AERMOD The AERMOD atmospheric dispersion modeling system is an integrated system that includes three modules:Prater, E.T. and Midgley, C., ''A new air dispersion modeling system is helping create more accurate industrial source models'', Environmental Prot ...

ADMS Automatic Device Model Synthesizer (ADMS) is a public domain software used in the semiconductor industry to translate Verilog-A models into C-models which can be directly read by a number of SPICE simulators, including Spectre Circuit Simulator, N ...

, BOXURB and other dispersion models. The bureau's consultancy services included: * height assessments of industrial stacks discharging airborne

pollutants A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. These can be both naturally forming (i.e. minerals or extracted compounds like o ...

* long-term environmental impact studies of airborne pollutant emissions * scenario modelling and analyses of accidental releases of airborne pollutants *

Air pollution forecasting Air pollution forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the composition of the air pollution in the atmosphere for a given location and time. An algorithm prediction of the pollutant concentrations can be translated into ...

studies * studies of long-range trans-boundary transport of air pollutants * urban air quality modelling * providing site-specific meteorological data The

continues to conduct atmospheric dispersion and air quality research and provides a range of services to UK and international governmental bodies, research funds and commercial customers.

References

External links

UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee (ADMLC) web site

Air Resources Laboratory (ARL)

Met Office web site

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Consultancy services

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