Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application V

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evaluating Strategies for Controlling Acidification in Europe with a Regional Scale Air Quality Model....Pages 3-15
The Feasibility and Effectiveness of Summer Season or Episodic SO 2 Emission Controls to Reduce Acidic Deposition in Eastern North America....Pages 17-31
Climatological Variability in the Evaluation of Cost Effectiveness of Emission Control Strategies to Reduce Acid Deposition....Pages 33-44
Regional Oxidant Modeling of the Northeast U.S.....Pages 45-59
Technical Uncertainty in Quantitative Policy Analysis — A Sulfur Air Pollution Example....Pages 61-82
The Determination of Air Pollution Abatement in Milan Urban Area....Pages 83-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Meteorological Events that Produced the Highest Ground-Level Concentrations During Complex Terrain/Field Experiments....Pages 99-111
Avacta II Model Simulations of Worst-Case Air Pollution Scenarios in Northern Italy....Pages 113-121
On-Line Wind Field Calculations for Routine and Emergency Response Applications....Pages 123-131
Report on the Study to Evaluate Air Pollution Episodes and Intermittent Control Measures....Pages 133-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for Air Pollution Dispersion Models....Pages 147-175
Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Based Upon Boundary Layer Parameterization....Pages 177-194
Modeling the Diurnal Variation of Meteorological Variables within the Boundary Layer — Preliminary Comparison Results....Pages 195-210
Statistical Models of Atmospheric Dispersion....Pages 211-226
Use of Meteorological Data to Parameterize Statistical Dispersion Models....Pages 227-246
Atmospheric Diffusion in the Range 20 to 2000 Kilometers....Pages 247-252
Short Range Dispersion within a System of Regular Valleys....Pages 253-265
Determination of the Relations Governing the Evolution of the Standard Deviations of the Distribution of Pollution....Pages 267-276
Modeling of Turbulence in Stable Layers and Forecasting of Pollution Episodes....Pages 277-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
An Examination of the Transport of Ozone and its Precursors in Rural Areas of the Eastern United States....Pages 293-313
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
The Transport of Reactive Pollutants Within Local Circulations....Pages 315-326
Modeling Sulfur Air Quality and Deposition in Pristine Areas....Pages 327-341
Technical Considerations in Regional Aerosol Modeling....Pages 343-369
First Results of the Data Processing of the VIth European Campaign on Remote — Sensing of Air Pollution (FOS — Etang De Berre, June 1983)....Pages 371-382
A Wind-Field Model for Interpretation of Remote-Sensing Data in a Complex Area....Pages 383-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Expectations and Experience in Diffusion Model Validation....Pages 403-410
Issues, Design and Interpretation of Performance Evaluations: Ensuring the Emperor Has Clothes....Pages 411-424
Assessing the Performance Level of Air Quality Models....Pages 425-440
Simple Statistical Methods for Comparative Evaluation of Air Quality Models....Pages 441-452
The Danish Gaussian Air Pollution Model (Oml): Description, Test and Sensitivity Analysis in View of Regulatory Applications....Pages 453-481
Regional Air Quality Model Assessment and Evaluation....Pages 483-500
The Use of Acid Deposition Models in Designing Long-Range Tracer Experiments....Pages 501-517
The Episodicity of Statistical Long Range Transport Models....Pages 519-529
South Central Coast Cooperative Aerometric Monitoring Program — An Integrated Atmospheric Pollutant Monitoring Program for the California Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)....Pages 531-541
Application of Linked Three-Dimensional PBL and Dispersion Models to New York City....Pages 543-564
A Reentry Plume Fumigation Model in a Lakeshore Environment....Pages 565-579
Atmospheric Dispersion Around an Isolated Hill — Programme and Preliminary Results....Pages 581-590
Initialization of the Euler Model ‘Modis’ with Field Data from the ‘Epri Plume Model Validation Project’....Pages 591-603
Concentration Statistics by wind Direction for 1976 St. Louis SO 2 Measurements and Model Estimates....Pages 605-619
Field Experiments with Tracer and Tetroons to Investigate Atmospheric Dispersion in the Mesoscale Range....Pages 621-637
Front Matter....Pages 639-639
Dispersion Modeling of Hazardous Materials in the Wind Tunnel....Pages 641-652
Heavy Gas Dispersion Modelling....Pages 653-663
Physical and Mathematical Modelling of Heavy Gas Dispersion — Accuracy and Reliability....Pages 665-683
Evaluation of Source Strength and Dispersion Model Predictions with Data from Large Nitrogen Tetroxide Field Experiments....Pages 685-706
Comparison Between Data from the Heavy Gas Dispersion Experiments at Thorney Island and Predictions of Simple Models....Pages 707-721
A Study of Heavy Gas Effects on the Atmospheric Dispersion of Dense Gases....Pages 723-742
A Three-Dimensional Numerical Model for the Dispersion of Heavy Gases over Complex Terrain....Pages 743-756
Back Matter....Pages 757-773