Air Pollution Modeling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Problem — Air Pollution

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   Pages 1-25

3. The Tool — Mathematical Modeling

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   Pages 27-40

4. Air Pollution Meteorology

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   Pages 41-72

5. Meteorological Modeling

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   Pages 73-93

6. Plume Rise

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   Pages 95-106

7. Eulerian Dispersion Models

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   Pages 107-139

8. Gaussian Models

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   Pages 141-183

9. Lagrangian Dispersion Models

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   Pages 185-222

10. Atmospheric Chemistry

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    Pages 223-247

11. Dry and Wet Deposition

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    Pages 249-262

12. Special Applications of Air Pollution Models

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    Pages 263-297

13. Statistical Methods

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    Pages 299-333

14. Modeling of Adverse Air Quality Effects

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    Pages 335-353

15. Available Computer Packages

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    Pages 355-425

16. Back Matter

    Pages 427-445

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Finishing this book is giving me a mixture of relief, satisfaction and frus­ tration. Relief, for the completion of a project that has taken too many of my evenings and weekends and that, in the last several months, has become almost an obsession. Satisfaction, for the optimistic feeling that this book, in spite of its many shortcomings and imbalances, will be of some help to the air pollution scientific community. Frustration, for the impossibility of incorporating newly available material that would require another major review of several key chap­ ters - an effort that is currently beyond my energies but not beyond my desires. The first canovaccio of this book came out in 1980 when I was invited by Computational Mechanics in the United Kingdom to give my first Air Pollution Modeling course. The course material, in the form of transparencies, expanded, year after year, thus providing a growing working basis. In 1985, the ECC Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, asked me to prepare a critical survey of mathe­ matical models of atmospheric pollution, transport and deposition. This support gave me the opportunity to prepare a sort of "first draft" of the book, which I expanded in the following years.

• air pollution
• mechanics
• pollution
• transport
• air pollution and air quality

• AeroVironment Inc., Monrovia, USA

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• Bergen High Tech Centre, IBM Scientific Centre, Bergen, Norway

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