Geography 402
Air Pollution Meteorology
We
intend to cover the following topics:
A. Fundamentals of Air Pollution
1. Sources
2. Transformations
3. Sinks
4. Effects
5. Measurements and Monitoring
6. Control
B. Air Pollution Meteorology
1. Scales of Air
Pollution Transport
2.
Advection
a. Global - Continental
b. Regional - Urban
c. Local
3.
Dispersion
a. Diffusion
b. Turbulence
c. Atmospheric
Boundary Layer Structure
d. Atmospheric
Boundary Layer Flows
C. Air Pollution Modelling
1. Deposition Processes
2.
Theory of Turbulent Diffusion
a. Governing Equations
b. Turbulence Closures
3.
The Gaussian Model
4.
Lagrangian vs. Eulerian Models
a. Regional and Urban
Models
b. Long Range Transport of Air
Pollutants