Environmental Impact Assessment

This service gives you access to the best personnel and the most advanced dispersion models available - using the bureau eliminates high set-up and ongoing running costs, and there's no need to purchase weather data.

• Your organisation benefits from the UK's leading experts in areas that include:

• air quality
• industrial emissions
• meteorology
• dispersion modelling and pollution forecasting
   
  

• The bureau can provide everything from dispersion results for inclusion in your own reports, to carrying out entire environmental impact assessments
  

• Services include:
  

• stack-height assessments
• long-term impact studies
• accident analyses; scenario modelling
• pollution forecasting
• long-range trans-boundary studies
• urban air-quality modelling
   
  

• The bureau has proven expertise and a wide-ranging list of satisfied clients, including:

• Environment Agency
• Power generators
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs
• Ministry of Defence
• Local authorities
• Environmental consultants

Case studies    One of the many studies undertaken by the Met Office that have involved replicating the events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Met Office's long-range dispersion model was used to assess likely radiation levels in areas of scarce monitoring data. The model simulated the transport of the radioactive emissions across western Europe and into the UK to within a few hours of its observed arrival time.    Other studies undertaken by the Met Office involve assessing long-term trans-boundary impacts of pollution emissions. This chart shows the deposition of sulphur dioxide emissions throughout Europe.

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