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Chesapeake Bay Experiment
Project Leader: Dr. Zafer Boybeyi (L) GMUBackground
Acquiring high resolution data on surface characteristics are essential to understand the dispersive plume or puff nature of complex gaseous release situations. This experiment is designed to obtain that information.
Technical Approach
We plan to collect high resolution surface characteristics by measuring soil moisture, vegetation cover, soil type, land use categories, albedo values, etc., especially in urban classifications. Input of such surface characteristics on mesoscale flow features provide the dispersion characteristics at that scale. This is necessary in modeling emergency hazard prediction and mitigation cases.
Satellite, air craft and in situ data for the Chesapeake Bay will be obtained from a variety of sources, such as Landsat 7, MODIS, ASTER, and, of course, field studies staged for such purposes.
Milestones
2nd Quarter Model analyses
4th Quarter Model evaluation and uncertainty analyses
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