First Principles of Meteorology and Air Pollution

• Main Author: Lazaridis, Mihalis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Environmental Pollution, 19
• Subjects: Environment.; Meteorology.; Environmental health.; Air pollution.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Health.

This book’s main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the environment, through first principles of meteorology and modelling/measurement approaches. The understanding of the complex sequence of even...

Table of Contents:

• Earth’s atmosphere
• First principles of meteorology
• Atmospheric circulation
• Atmospheric chemistry
• Atmospheric Aerosols
• Atmospheric dispersion - Gaussian models
• Atmospheric models - Emissions of pollutants
• Indoor air pollution
• Human exposure and health risk from air pollutants
• Appendix
• Index.