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- LANL expertise high-performance computing/instrumentation design leveraged
- Contributions atmospheric, oceanic, and climate research
- Climate change, pollution measurement and control, and hazard mitigation
- Fire SimulationóCoral Canyon near Malibu
- Fire 18 minutes after spotted Medium green shading) canyon bottom
- Weak winds, fire, topography coupled to cause eruption
- 1996 Calabasas fire (same location) resulted in injuries, actual time for fire to reach canyon ridge from bottom, 20ñ25 minutes from first report
- Plume DispersionóNear field building flow simulation
- Horizontal cross section of instantaneous inert tracer concentrationsó5 minutes after release
- Modeled building 100 m/side, 50 m high
- Tracer exhausted from buildingís exhaust vents
- Sediment Contamination Evaluations
- LANL developed method to evaluate sediment contamination at watershed scales
- Contaminants (radionuclides, metals, organic compounds) tend to absorb to sediments
- Redistributed in canyons by floods
