Supporting Military Emergency Response During Hazardous Releases

SUPPORTING MILITARY EMERGENCY RESPONSE DURING HAZARDOUS RELEASES Name:             Grade Course: Tutor’s Name: (22 July 2011) Supporting Military Emergency Response during Hazardous Releases Things that make dispersion modeling to become an area that is important for service and support of weather forecast include aircraft accidents, terrorism along with accidental release materials that seem hazardous. The most significant meteorological data during incidents are wind, stability precipitation, along with precipitation. The exposure of any pollutant depends much on either dispersion or the dilution factor of the plume. Short distances give the plume less time to disperse but higher its concentration and vice versa. Exposure also depends on plume centerline which relates with wind direction. Last but not least, depends on the time that one has been in the plume. The best thing to remember is that, dispersion is always random, however, is heavily influenced by the speed and direction of wind. But as time goes by, it becomes normal. Stability on the other hand has been defined as the “level at which the atmosphere will support, tolerate, or suppress turbulent motions”, (Supporting Military Emergency Response during Hazardous Releases). The three stability states named in this article include: unstable, whose lapse state is described as being super-adiabatic state; neutral state described as adiabat...