Development of the three-dimensional atmospheric dispersion model GEARN-FDM by introducing advection and diffusion schemes based on finite difference methods

Kadowaki, Masanao   ; Terada, Hiroaki   ; Katata, Genki; Furuno, Akiko   ; Nagai, Haruyasu  

In case of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency, a simulation with numerical models is a powerful means in order to predict distributions of the polluted air. Although a particle model that WSPEEDI has introduced shows advantage in the synoptic scale, it costs computationally because of the large amount of airborne particles. Moreover, the model has problems with uncertainties in the calculations on long range, due to exponentially increasing errors. For the reason, in this study the atmospheric transport modeling with a finite difference method: GEARN-FDM is proposed in order to improve WSPEEDI. The advection and diffusion in the atmosphere were calculated by using a mass conservative and monotonic manner scheme (Walcek, 2000) and Crank-Nicolson method, respectively. The distributions of tracer were good agreement with the first ETEX measurements. In this session the validation and comparison will be discussed.