Open Burn/Open Detonation Dispersion Model (OBODM) User's Guide. Volume II. Technical Description.
Abstract
The Open Burn/Open Detonation Dispersion Model (OBODM) is intended for use in evaluating the potential air quality impacts of the open-air burning and detonation (OB/OD) of obsolete munitions and solid propellants. OBODM uses cloud/plume rise, dispersion, and deposition algorithms taken from existing models for instantaneous and quasi-continuous sources to predict the downwind transport and dispersion of pollutants released by OB/OD operations. The model can be used to calculate peak concentration, time-mean concentration, dosage (time-integrated concentration) , and particulate ravitational- deposition for emissions from multiple OB/OD sources for either a single event or up to a year of sequential hourly source and meteorological inputs. The program is designed for use on IBM-compatible PCs using the MS-DOS (Version 2.1 or higher) operating system with keyboard and optional mouse control. It will also run under most WINDOWS environments. The OBODM computer program requires 505 kilobytes of conventional memory, a math coprocessor, and a minimum of 3 megabytes of hard disk storage. Volume I of this user guide contains instructions for installing and running the model and example problems. Volume II discusses the model's mathematical algorithms and default meteorological inputs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA345376
Entities
People
- Gregory C. Dodd
- J. Michael White
- James F. Bowers
- Jay R. Bjorklund