Hazard Prediction Model (HPM)
1) What is it?
HPM is a software capable of predicting the atmospheric dispersion of chemical warfare
agents resulting from terrorist events in Sri Lanka. The user has to provide information
related to release scenario and meteorological data as input and the program simulates
the dispersion and visualizes the ground level dosages on a satellite map (see the user
manual and demo: https://youtu.be/N6TukoAqg4g for more information).
Plesae refer to authors's MSc thesis for methodological details:
https://github.com/Madu86/HPM/blob/master/Thesis_Final.pdf
The program was written in visual C# by Madushanka Manathunga as his MSc thesis project
during 2011-2012 under the guidance of Prof. M.S. Weerasinghe at the Department of Chemistry,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2) Installation
The current version (1.0.0) only runs on windows platform. We have tested it on windows xp
and windows 7 versions.
To install the program, simply run setup.exe and follow the instructions.
3) Distribution
Feel free to use the program or adopt parts of the code. However, please cite the work as
follows.
Kumara, M.M.M.S., 2012, Development of Hazard Prediction Modelfor Toxic Air Pollutants Resulting
from Terrorist Events, MSc Thesis, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
M.M.M.S. Kumara and S. Weerasinghe, Development of short range hazard prediction
model for toxic air pollutants, Annual Research Symposium (2012), University of
Colombo, Sri Lanka.http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/research/handle/70130/3343