NAME dispersion model

Met Office pollution model

This world-renowned atmospheric pollution dispersion model is an invaluable and versatile tool for accident and episode analysis, and for pollution forecasting.

NAME can:

• Forecast air quality

• Assess the cause of pollution incidents

• Produce long-term impact assessments

• Understand and predict long-standing air pollution problems, like acid rain
  

• Forecast the international movement of volcanic ash and radioactive emissions

NAME lies at the heart of the Met Office's air quality forecasting system, and is widely used by industry and government to help solve pollution problems.

• Making unique use of 3D global weather data, NAME is the result of many years of development and includes enhancements in response to the Chernobyl disaster
  

• Applications covered include: plume rise, realistic boundary layer simulation and upper level transport
  

• All spatial scales are catered for, and it includes a powerful suite of diagnostic tools
  

• 3D trajectories of air parcels are used to compute air concentrations and ground deposits

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