1. High Performance Computing Serving Atmospheric Transport & Dispersion Modelling.
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Armand, Patrick and Armand, Patrick
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Medicine ,3D ,ADMS-Urban ,CAPE ,CFD ,CIN ,CityGML ,Code_Saturne ,EMERGENCIES project ,FLEXPART ,HPC ,NOx ,OpenFOAM ,PM10 ,PMSS Lagrangian model ,PMSS model ,PMSS modeling system ,RANS ,Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes ,South Asia ,WRF ,WRF-Chem ,West Midlands ,aerosols ,air pollution ,air quality ,air quality impact study ,air quality modelling ,atmospheric boundary layer ,atmospheric dispersion modelling ,atmospheric release ,complex terrain ,computational fluid dynamics ,coupling simulation ,database ,deposition ,emergencies project ,fast-response dispersion modeling ,gas dispersion ,graphics processing unit computing ,green infrastructure ,hazard assessment ,hazardous release ,high performance computing ,high resolution grid ,high-resolution metric grid ,horizontal homogeneity ,lagrangian dispersion model ,large eddy simulation ,large-eddy simulation ,lattice Boltzmann method ,machine learning ,mesoscale meteorological simulation model ,meteorological observation ,micro-scale dispersion models ,microscale dispersion ,model validation ,nature-based solutions ,on-site meteorological observation ,operational emergency modeling ,plume dispersion ,pollutant dispersion ,precipitation ,prediction ,situational awareness ,traffic emissions ,turbulence model ,urban air pollution ,urban area ,urban dispersion ,urban dispersion modelling ,urban physics ,urban scale ,water mist dispersion ,web mapping ,web visualization ,wind field - Abstract
Summary: This reprint brings together fifteen articles published in the Special Issue of the journal Atmosphere, entitled "High-Performance Computing Serving Atmospheric Transport & Dispersion Modelling". These articles cover a wide variety of topics related to air quality in urban areas and nature-based solutions to improve it in the context of climate change; impact studies on human health and the environment of facilities and infrastructure projects as well as risk studies; the assessment of emerging threats; and preparations for and responses to emergencies involving toxic, flammable, or explosive atmospheric releases. As the fifteen articles presented here remarkably illustrate, what these contemporary topics have in common is the implementation of multi-scale simulations of atmospheric transport and dispersion by means of physical models of computational fluid dynamics (CFDs), whose potential is enhanced by high-performance computing (HPC). This reprint thus addresses the answers provided by modelling and the most advanced simulations to some societal matters of major interest.