NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE AND ACCESS PROTAL TOOL

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Mon, 12/07/2009 - 15:59

Current mesoscale weather prediction and microscale dispersion models are limited in their ability to perform accurate assessments in urban areas.

A project called the National Urban Database with Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT) is beginning to provide urban data and improve the parameterization of urban boundary-layer processes (Ching, 2007).

The impetus for NUDAPT came from results of an American Meteorological Society Board of Urban Environment survey and recommendations from the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology?s Urban Environment Workshop (2005)....


 

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