Air Dispersion Modeling : Foundations and Applications /

• Main Author: De Visscher, Alex
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Somerset, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.
• Subjects: Air > Pollution > Simulation methods.; Atmospheric diffusion > Simulation methods.; Aire > Contaminació > Mètodes de simulació; Difusió atmosfèrica > Mètodes de simulació; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.; Electronic books.

"Introduces the fundamentals, discusses implementation issues of air dispersion models, and provides a detailed description of the most widely used air dispersion models."--

Table of Contents:

• An Air Dispersion Modeling Primer
• Air Pollutants
• Regulation of Air Quality and Air Quality Modeling
• Meteorology for Air Dispersion Modelers
• Gaussian Dispersion Modeling: An In-Depth Study
• Plume-Atmosphere Interactions
• Gaussian Model Approaches in Urban or Industrial Terrain
• Stochastic Modeling Approaches
• Computational Fluid Dynamics and Meteorological Modeling
• Eulerian Model Approaches
• Practical Aspects of Air Dispersion Modeling
• ISC3 and SCREEN3: A Detailed Description
• AERMOD and AERMET: A Detailed Description
• CALPUFF and CALMET: A Detailed Description
• Appendix A Auxiliary Calculations and Derivations
• Appendix B Auxiliary Data and Methods
• Appendix C A Theory of Near Surface Turbulence Applied to Wind Speed Profiles, Dry Deposition, Air-Water Exchange and Canopy Effects.