Tracer and meteorology field campaign in downtown Oklahoma City (Joint Urban 2003)
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DTRA/DHS field study in July 2003: ten 8-hour intensive periods of SF6 releases in the central business district, sampled by 194 bag samplers and 25 fast-response analysers, with winds and turbulence measured at about 100 sites. A classic real-city dispersion benchmark.
The public Joint Urban 2003 archive run by Dugway Proving Ground is offline, and the ADMLC dataset list also marks it as offline. Email Julia Flaherty at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, co-author of the campaign summary report, to ask how to obtain the tracer and meteorological data. Say who you are and what you will use the data for.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dugway Proving Ground, & NOAA ARL Field Research Division. (2003). Tracer and meteorology field campaign in downtown Oklahoma City (Joint Urban 2003) [Data set]. https://my.eng.utah.edu/~pardyjak/documents/PNNL_JU03_SummaryReport.pdf
Please also cite the publication below that describes it.
Classic multiscale urban dispersion campaign: SF6 and perfluorocarbon tracer releases with meteorology around a single building, across the downtown grid and over the wider city, mostly in stable night-time conditions. Files are openly downloadable by IOP.
Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment, 2001–02: a year-long network of energy-balance towers across urban, suburban and rural sites, with a June–July 2002 intensive period adding a wind profiler, sodar/RASS, lidar, a street-canyon tower and four SF6 tracer releases. A reference for urban roughness-sublayer turbulence and energy balance.
Meteorology and air quality field campaign in London in 2011-12, with multiple sites and intensive observations during the 2012 Olympics. Useful for urban boundary-layer and air quality studies; individual datasets are available via the paper authors.
Air pollution field campaigns in London in 2006/7 with measurements at ground level and at 160 m on the BT Tower. Useful for studying pollutant concentrations and transport above and within a megacity.
Rooftop meteorological measurements from the BT Tower during the DAPPLE campaign in London, used to reference street-level flows. Useful as reference wind and turbulence data for urban dispersion and emergency-response studies.
Hamburg wind-tunnel model of the Joint Urban 2003 area of Oklahoma City, used in COST 732; the openly obtainable counterpart to the Joint Urban 2003 field data, whose archive is offline.