Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling

Author : Alex De Visscher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118723104

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Air Dispersion Modeling by Alex De Visscher Pdf

A single reference to all aspects of contemporary air dispersion modeling The practice of air dispersion modeling has changed dramatically in recent years, in large part due to new EPA regulations. Current with the EPA's 40 CFR Part 51, this book serves as a complete reference to both the science and contemporary practice of air dispersion modeling. Throughout the book, author Alex De Visscher guides readers through complex calculations, equation by equation, helping them understand precisely how air dispersion models work, including such popular models as the EPA's AERMOD and CALPUFF. Air Dispersion Modeling begins with a primer that enables readers to quickly grasp basic principles by developing their own air dispersion model. Next, the book offers everything readers need to work with air dispersion models and accurately interpret their results, including: Full chapter dedicated to the meteorological basis of air dispersion Examples throughout the book illustrating how theory translates into practice Extensive discussions of Gaussian, Lagrangian, and Eulerian air dispersion modeling Detailed descriptions of the AERMOD and CALPUFF model formulations This book also includes access to a website with Microsoft Excel and MATLAB files that contain examples of air dispersion model calculations. Readers can work with these examples to perform their own calculations. With its comprehensive and up-to-date coverage, Air Dispersion Modeling is recommended for environmental engineers and meteorologists who need to perform and evaluate environmental impact assessments. The book's many examples and step-by-step instructions also make it ideal as a textbook for students in the fields of environmental engineering, meteorology, chemical engineering, and environmental sciences.

Author : Rod Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134194971

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Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling by Rod Barratt Pdf

To comply with legal and other standards, businesses and regulators are increasingly required to make decisions based on risk assessments of the potential effects of their activities on the environment. Atmospheric dispersion modelling is a cost-effective method, allowing various scenarios to be explored before expensive investment takes place. This guide offers advice on this environmental management tool. Unlike much of the previous literature, it doesn't focus excessively on the mathematical theory behind the modelling or on modelling for specific regulatory purposes. Instead, it offers an understanding of the background to the methodologies, providing exercises to develop the skills to carry these out and including examples of the use of commercially available models to enable the reader to assess the results of modelling for risk assessment.

Author : D. Bruce Turner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429612749

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Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates by D. Bruce Turner Pdf

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today. The book and accompanying diskette will help you determine the impacts of various sources of air pollution, including the effects of wind and turbulence, plume rise, and Gaussian dispersion and its limitations. Information is shown in summary graphs as well as in equations. The programs included on the diskette allow you to "get the feel" for the results you'll obtain through the input of various combinations of parameter values. The sensitivity of data to various parameters can be easily explored by changing one value and seeing the effect on the results. The book presents 37 example problems with solutions to show the estimation of atmospheric pollutant concentrations for many situations.

Author : Milton R. Beychok
Publisher : Milton R Beychok
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0964458802

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Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion by Milton R. Beychok Pdf

This is the new, fourth edition of the book on dispersion modeling of continuous, buoyant air pollution plumes which takes nothing for granted. Every equation is completely derived step-by-step without any complicated or advanced mathematics. Every constraint and assumption is fully explained. A set of self-study exercises is also included with the book.The subjects covered in the book include atmospheric turbulence and stability classes, buoyant plume rise, Gaussian dispersion calculations and modeling, time-averaged concentrations, wind velocity profiles, fumigations, trapped plumes, flare stack plumes and much more ... with a great many example calculations. Copies of the book have been purchased in the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia (in a total of 57 countries), and are available in over 130 libraries worldwide. The book has been very widely referenced and cited in the technical literature and on the Internet.

Author : D. Bruce Turner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 156670023X

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Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates by D. Bruce Turner Pdf

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today. The book and accompanying diskette will help you determine the impacts of various sources of air pollution, including the effects of wind and turbulence, plume rise, and Gaussian dispersion and its limitations. Information is shown in summary graphs as well as in equations. The programs included on the diskette allow you to "get the feel" for the results you'll obtain through the input of various combinations of parameter values. The sensitivity of data to various parameters can be easily explored by changing one value and seeing the effect on the results. The book presents 37 example problems with solutions to show the estimation of atmospheric pollutant concentrations for many situations.

Author : P. Zannetti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475744651

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Air Pollution Modeling by P. Zannetti Pdf

Finishing this book is giving me a mixture of relief, satisfaction and frus tration. Relief, for the completion of a project that has taken too many of my evenings and weekends and that, in the last several months, has become almost an obsession. Satisfaction, for the optimistic feeling that this book, in spite of its many shortcomings and imbalances, will be of some help to the air pollution scientific community. Frustration, for the impossibility of incorporating newly available material that would require another major review of several key chap ters - an effort that is currently beyond my energies but not beyond my desires. The first canovaccio of this book came out in 1980 when I was invited by Computational Mechanics in the United Kingdom to give my first Air Pollution Modeling course. The course material, in the form of transparencies, expanded, year after year, thus providing a growing working basis. In 1985, the ECC Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, asked me to prepare a critical survey of mathe matical models of atmospheric pollution, transport and deposition. This support gave me the opportunity to prepare a sort of "first draft" of the book, which I expanded in the following years.

Author : D. Bruce Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Air
ISBN : UCAL:D2563398

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Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates by D. Bruce Turner Pdf

Author : New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment,National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (N.Z.),Aurora Pacific (Firm),Earth Tech (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Air
ISBN : 0478189419

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Good Practice Guide for Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling by New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment,National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (N.Z.),Aurora Pacific (Firm),Earth Tech (Firm) Pdf

Author : Carlos Borrego,Ann-Lise Norman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387688541

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Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVII by Carlos Borrego,Ann-Lise Norman Pdf

In 1969 the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) established the Committee on Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS). The subject of air pol- tion was from the start, one of the priority problems under study within the fra- work of various pilot studies undertaken by this committee. The organization of a periodic conference dealing with air pollution modeling and its application has become one of the main activities within the pilot study relating to air pollution. The first five international conferences were organized by the United States as the pilot country; the second five by the Federal Republic of Germany; the third five by Belgium; the next four by The Netherlands; and the next five by Denmark; and with this one, the last three by Portugal. th This volume contains the papers and posters presented at the 27 NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application held in Banff, Canada, 24-29 October 2004. The key topics at this ITM included: Role of Atmospheric Models in Air Pollution Policy and Abatement Strategies; Integrated Regional Modeling; Effects of Climate Change on Air Quality; Aerosols as Atmospheric Contaminants; New Developments; and Model Assessment and Verification. 104 participants from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia attended th the 27 ITM. The conference was jointly organized by the University of Aveiro, Portugal (Pilot Country) and by The University of Calgary, Canada (Host Country). A total of 74 oral and 22 poster papers were presented during the conference.

Author : Rod Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134194902

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Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling by Rod Barratt Pdf

To comply with legal and other standards, businesses and regulators are increasingly required to make decisions based on risk assessments of the potential effects of their activities on the environment. Atmospheric dispersion modelling is a cost-effective method, allowing various scenarios to be explored before expensive investment takes place. This guide offers advice on this environmental management tool. Unlike much of the previous literature, it doesn't focus excessively on the mathematical theory behind the modelling or on modelling for specific regulatory purposes. Instead, it offers an understanding of the background to the methodologies, providing exercises to develop the skills to carry these out and including examples of the use of commercially available models to enable the reader to assess the results of modelling for risk assessment.

Author : Sven-Erik Gryning,Nadine Chaumerliac
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475791280

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Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XII by Sven-Erik Gryning,Nadine Chaumerliac Pdf

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 2-6, 1997

Author : Karl B. Schnelle,Partha R. Dey
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0070580596

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Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Compliance Guide by Karl B. Schnelle,Partha R. Dey Pdf

CD-ROM includes: Practice problems that reinforces and deepen understanding of modeling principles.

Author : Sven-Erik Gryning,Ekaterina Batchvarova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461541530

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Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIII by Sven-Erik Gryning,Ekaterina Batchvarova Pdf

The ITM conference series has always had a strong spirit of cooperation under the NATO/CCMS umbrella, and with the considerable interest fram Partner countries to participate in the ITM conferences, it provides an excellent opportunity to create ties between scientists. Whereas all previous ITM conferences have taken place in NATO countries, the 23rd ITM takes place in a Cooperative Partner country, Bulgaria, and is hosted by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. This fact reflects a general wish for a closer connection and collaboration among scientists fram Partner and NATO countries. This volume contains the papers from the 23rd NATO/CCMS International Technical Meetings on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, being held September 28 - October 2, 1998, at Riviera Holiday Club, Varna, Bulgaria. It was attended by 120 participants from 30 countries. Thanks are due to all who made it possible to plan, carry through, and follow up the meeting, and to the participants who made the conference so successful. Special thanks are due to the sponsoring institutions: ATO/CCMS EURASAP RIS0 BAS 3M NATO/CCMS - Committee on the Challenges of Modem Society EURASAP - European Association for the Science of Air Pollution RIS0 - Ris0 National Laboratory, Denmark NIMH - National Institute of Meteorology and Hydralogy, Bulgaria BAS - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 3M Representation office, Bulgaria Prestige Business Ltd. , Bulgaria The excellent collaboration with CIM (Company for International Meetings Ltd.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Air quality management
ISBN : UIUC:30112113008442

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Summary Report on the NCAQ Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Panel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Akula Venkatram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935704164

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Lectures on Air Pollution Modeling by Akula Venkatram Pdf

This volume is concerned with the physics and the application of air pollution modeling on scales up to about 50 km. Its eight chapters, comprising the diverse points of view of seven authors, remain substantially in their original, lecture-note form. The result is not a smoothly flowing monograph but instead a richly textured, lively collection of the seasoned thoughts and perspectives of experienced researchers and practitioners.