Assessing Atmospheric Releases of Hazardous Materials

Abstract

Atmospheric transport and dispersion (AT and D) models play an important role in the Department of Defense because of the threat of battlefield or terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons. There is a need to accurately model the consequences of the intentional or accidental release of hazardous materials into the atmosphere.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1124096

Entities

People

  • Jeffry Urban
  • Nathan Platt

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Artillery Ammunition
  • Atmospheres
  • Biological Weapons
  • Casualties
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Chemistry
  • Delta Functions
  • Department Of Defense
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Hazards
  • Lethality
  • Materials
  • Normal Distribution
  • Philosophy
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Spatial Distribution
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Toxicity
  • Universities
  • Weapons
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Environmental Engineering.