GPV2OSC, meteorological data format conversion program for OSCAAR

The Risk Analysis Research Group, Reactor Safety Research Division, Nuclear Safety Research Center, Sector of Nuclear Safety Research and Emergency Preparedness, Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been developing OSCAAR, a probabilistic risk assessment program for nuclear facility accidents. OSCAAR has the feature to calculate atmospheric concentrations of radioactive materials using an atmospheric dispersion model. This feature requires the input of meteorological data about wind speed, precipitation rate, atmospheric stability and so on. However, to use numerical weather prediction data created from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on OSCAAR, it is necessary to convert the data format to match OSCAAR input format in advance. Therefore, we developed GPV2OSC, a pre-processing program for OSCAAR, to create meteorological data converted from JMA weather prediction data format to OSCAAR input format when the target region and period are specified. This report describes the outline and usage of GPV2OSC. (author)