Lectures on Air Pollution and Environmental Impact Analyses


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This publication of the AMS contains all the lectures that were presented at the AMS Workshop on Meteorology and Environmental Assessment held in Boston, MA on September 29-October 3, 1975. Topics include: The dispersion of materials in the atmospheric boundary layer, atmospheric dispersion models for environmental pollution applications, plume rise predictions, turbulent diffusion and pollutant transport in shoreline environments, urban diffusion problems, atmospheric transformations of pollutants, observational systems and techniques in air pollution meteorology, and federal government requirements for environmental impact assessment.







Plume Rise


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ERDA Energy Research Abstracts


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Contaminated Sediments


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Sediments are increasingly recognized as both a carrier and a possible source of contaminants in aquatic systems, and they may also affect groundwater quality and agricultural products when disposed on land. Four aspects are covered reflecting the development of knowledge in particle-associated pollutants during the past twenty-five years: - the identification, surveillance, monitoring and control of sources and distribution of pollutants, - the evaluation of solid/solution relations of contaminants in surface waters, - the study of in-situ processes and mechanisms of pollutant transfer in various compartments of the aquatic ecosystems, - the assessment of the environmental impact of particle-bound contaminants, i.e. the development of sediment quality criteria. A final chapter focusses on practical aspects concerning contaminated sediments.




ERDA Energy Research Abstracts


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Air Pollution


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Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low concentrations of air pollution. Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts examines the effect of this complex problem on human health and the environment in different settings around the world. I




Handbook of Air Pollution Analysis


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The contributing authors have been chosen because of their depth of knowledge and experience in air pollution work, and we are confident that this is reflected in a Handbook which will find very wide application wherever air pollution analysis is practised. Roy M. Harrison Roger Perry February 1985 Readers are recommended to follow all the usual laboratory safety pre cautions. While care has been taken to ensure that the information in this book is correct, neither the authors nor the publisher can accept responsibility for any outcome of the application of methods and procedures outlined in this book. Contributors A. Apling BSc, PhD Air Pollution Division Warren Spring Laboratory Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Hertfordshire SG 1 2BX UK H.W. de Koning DSc Environmental Pollution Division of Environmental Health World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland R.M. Harrison PhD Department of Chemistry University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester C04 3SQ UK P.W.W. Kirk BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, C Chern, MRSC Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BU UK J.R. Kramer Professor in Geochemistry Department of Geology McMaster University Hamilton Ontario L8S 4Ml Canada J.N. Lester B. Tech, MSc, DIC, PhD, MIPHE, Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BU UK xxi xxii Contributors A.E. Mcintyre BSc, PhD, DIC, MIWES Consultants in Environmental Sciences Ltd Yeoman House 63 Croydon Road London SW20 7TW UK D.J.




Air Pollution Processes in Regional Scale


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An understanding of long-range transport of air pollutants in the atmosphere requires a knowledge of the relevant atmospheric dynamic and chemical processes active at the regional scale as well as the temporal and spatial distribution of emissions. Numerical modeling is the most efficient way to determine the atmospheric transport, photochemistry and deposition pathways. The book therefore discusses the physical and chemical processes that determine regional air pollution and presents the relevant modeling techniques to describe the different atmospheric processes that are active at that scale.