NAME (dispersion model)

NAME atmospheric pollution dispersion model[1][2][3][4] was first developed by the UK's Met Office in 1986 after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which demonstrated the need for a method that could predict the spread and deposition of radioactive gases or material released into the atmosphere.

The acronym, NAME, originally stood for the Nuclear Accident ModEl.[5] The Met Office has revised and upgraded the model over the years and it is now used as a general purpose dispersion model. The current version is known as the NAME III (Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion Modelling Environment) model. NAME III is currently[when?] operational and it will probably completely replace the original NAME model sometimes in 2006.

  1. ^ Air Quality Programme and Progress, Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee (MOSAC), November 11–12, 2004
  2. ^ Met Office "Specialised forecasts"
  3. ^ Met Office "NWP Gazette" Archived 2006-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, 3rd Quarter, 1996
  4. ^ Met Office "NWP Gazette" Archived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, December 2000
  5. ^ Maryon, R.H.; Smith, F.B.; Conway, B.J.; Goddard, D.M. (1991). "The U.K. nuclear accident model". Progress in Nuclear Energy. 26 (2): 85–104. doi:10.1016/0149-1970(91)90043-O. ISSN 0149-1970.