Urban tracer and meteorology experiment, downtown Salt Lake City (URBAN 2000)
Benchmark Field
Classic multiscale urban dispersion campaign: SF6 and perfluorocarbon tracer releases with meteorology around a single building, across the downtown grid and over the wider city, mostly in stable night-time conditions. Files are openly downloadable by IOP.
- Resource
- Measurements
- Method
- Field
- Geometry
- Realistic neighbourhood, City scale
- Topic
- Dispersion & air quality, Urban boundary layer
- Quantities
- Concentration, Velocity, Turbulence statistics, Temperature, Wind profile
- Instrument
- Tracer release, Sonic anemometer, Weather station, Radiosonde, Lidar
- Location
- Salt Lake City, United States
- Year
- 2000
- Licence
- Free to use; acknowledge the DOE Chemical and Biological National Security Program
- Institution
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; NOAA ARL Field Research Division
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