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4 - Air Pollution Meteorology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

Christian Seigneur
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École des Ponts Paris Tech
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Summary

Population exposure to air pollution occurs mostly near the Earth’s surface. Furthermore, most air pollution sources are located near the Earth’s surface (some exceptions include tall stacks, aircraft emissions, and volcanic eruptions). Therefore, the meteorological phenomena of the lower layers of the atmosphere are the most relevant to understand and analyze air pollution. The part of the atmosphere that is in contact with the Earth’s surface and is affected by it is called the atmospheric planetary boundary layer (PBL). This chapter describes the dynamic processes that take place within the PBL. Those include, in particular, turbulent atmospheric flows and heat transfer processes, which affect air pollution near the surface. Those processes are often referred to as “air pollution meteorology,” because they are the most relevant to air pollution. The major equations governing these processes are presented. A more detailed description of the PBL is available in books such as those by Stull (1988) and Arya (2001).

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Air Pollution
Concepts, Theory, and Applications
, pp. 51 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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