Mesoscale Atmospheric Dispersion

Mesoscale Atmospheric Dispersion
Author: Zafer Boybeyi
Publisher: Computational Mechanics
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

The most serious problems to affect out atmospheric environment, such as urban air pollution, regional haze, acidic precipitation, and ozone depletion, occur over mesoscale travel distances and are consequently truly international in nature. In response to the increased awareness of these problems, many universities now offer interdisciplinary programmes in environmental science while many government and private organizations also support environmental projects. This study seeks to fulfil the need for a suitable text for graduate students working in the field. It consists of 13 chapters which review basic concepts, theories and modelling issues of pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere and related atmospheric systems affecting transport, transformation, and removal of air pollutants over mesoscale travel distances.

Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields

Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields
Author: A. Gyr
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401585474

In regions as densely populated as Western Europe, prediction of the ecological implications of pollutant transport are important in order to minimise damage in the case of accidents, and to evaluate the possible influence of existing or planned sources. In most cases, such predictions depend on high-speed computation. The present textbook presents a mathematically explicit introduction in eight chapters: 1: An introduction to the basics of fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and the local events and mesoscale processes. 2: The types of PDEs describing atmospheric flows for limited area models, the problem of appropriate boundary conditions describing the topographical constraints, and well-posedness. 3: Thermodynamics of the atmosphere, dry and wet, its stability, and radiation processes, budgets and the influence of their sum. 4: Scaling and similarity laws for stable and convective turbulent atmospheric boundary layers and the influence of inhomogeneous terrain on the advection and the vertical dispersion, and the method of large eddy simulation. 5: Statistical processes in turbulent dispersion, turbulent diffusion and chemical reactions in fluxes. 6: Theoretical modelling of diffusion and dispersion of pollutant gases. 7: The influence of urban heat production on local climate. 8: Atmospheric inversion layers and lapping inversion, the stable boundary layer and nocturnal inversion.