Urban tracer and meteorology experiment, downtown Salt Lake City (URBAN 2000)
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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.
Free to use; acknowledge the DOE Chemical and Biological National Security Program
How to cite
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, & NOAA ARL Field Research Division. (2000). Urban tracer and meteorology experiment, downtown Salt Lake City (URBAN 2000) [Data set]. https://urban.llnl.gov/data
Please also cite the publication below that describes it.
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