Author(s)

L. Robinson & I. Teasedale

Abstract

. This work compares the predictions of a linearised wind flow and turbulence model with sonic anemometer data taken in a geographically complex region dominated by a large industrial site, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility. The Sellafield plant, in Cumbria, has a licence to emit various forms of effluent to the atmosphere, both radioactive and stable. Understanding the turbulent structure of the boundary layer is important for modelling the dispersion of effluent. The complexity of this task is enhanced by the irregularity of the terrain, the industrial site itself and the sea-land transition, which lies within a kilometre of the plant. The results of a computer code, FLOWSTAR, are compared with field measurements of turbul

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