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Appendix H: Preparatory Exercises at the Salt Lake City Olympics
Pages 89-90

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... ~. Investigators also had continuous, real-time atmospheric monitoring in SLC throughout the games and drew upon daily SLC forecast discussions and teleconferences with the SLC National Weather Service.
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... For instance, in mountainous areas such as SLC, the decision of whether you are allowed to use wood-burning stoves is based on the ventilation index, a function of boundary layer height and wind speed. A poor ventilation index means a low boundary layer and wind speed, so any release will be trapped closer to the ground.
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