Areas of Interest
ADMLC facilitates the exchange of ideas and highlights where there are gaps in knowledge. It tries to provide guidance to, and to endorse good practice in, the dispersion modelling community. The ADMLC has hosted workshops and welcomes ideas for joint meetings or joint workshops with other organisations.
The ADMLC members pay an annual subscription which is used to fund reviews on topics agreed on by the members, and to support in part its secretariat, provided by the Health Protection Agency. By the end of the 2004/05 financial year, the ADMLC had funded 24 review projects. Those projects are indicative of the areas in which the ADMLC is interested, and they include the following review project subjects:
- Dispersion at low wind speed
- Dispersion from sources near groups of buildings, or in urban areas
- Plume rise
- Dispersion in coastal areas,
- The use of old meteorological data or data obtained at some distance from the release point
- The possible use of data from numerical weather prediction programs
- Uncertainty of dispersion model predictions as a result of deriving atmospheric stability indicators from meteorological data
- Proceedings of a workshop on the reliability of dispersion models for regulatory applications
- Review of the Royal Meteorological Society guidelines for atmospheric dispersion modelling
- Calculation of air pollutant concentrations indoors
- Dispersion following explosions
Read more about this topic: UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee
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