Fundamentals in Air Pollution From Processes to Modelling [Hardcover]

This concise overview of issues related to air quality starts with basic principles of physics and chemistry and moves to a discussion of the latest science around such issues as radiative transfer, atmospheric boundary layer and chemistry transport models.

Introduction1. Primer for the Atmospheric Composition1.1 Atmospheric Chemical Composition1.2 Atmospheric Vertical Structure1.3 Timescales2. Atmospheric Radiative Transfer2.1 Primer for Radiative Transfer2.2 Applications to the Earths Atmosphere3. Atmospheric Boundary Layer3.1 Meteorological Scales3.2 Atmospheric Boundary Layer3.3 Thermal Stratification and Stability3.4 ABL Turbulence3.5 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics3.6 A Few Facts for the Urban Climate4. Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry4.1 Primer for Atmospheric Chemistry4.2 Stratospheric Chemistry of Ozone4.3 Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone4.4 Brief Introduction to Indoor Air Quality5. Aerosols, Clouds and Rains5.1 Aerosols andParticles5.2 Aerosols and Clouds5.3 Acid Rains and Scavenging6. Toward Numerical Simulation6.1 Reactive Dispersion Equation6.2 Fundamentals of Numerical Analysis for Chemistry-Transport Models6.3 Numerical Simulation of the General Dynamic Equation for Aerosols (GDE)6.4 State-of-the-Art Modeling System6.5 Next-Generation ModelsAppendix 1 Units, Constants and Basic DataReferencesIndex

From the reviews:

Chapters cover atmospheric particulates, aerosol dynamics, and the use of numerical simulation and chemistry transport models. & The work includes about 70 challenging exercises (with solutions) that make it especially useful for self-study by professionals from other fields who wish to review this topic. Valuable for libraries that support programs in environmental chemistry, geophysics, meteorology, and air pollution engineering. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. (H. E. Pence, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), July, 2010)

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