Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIV

✍ Scribed by Peter J. H. Builtjes (auth.), Sven-Erik Gryning, Francis A. Schiermeier (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 737
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Proceedings of the Millennium NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held May 15-19 in Boulder, Colorado.
This volume is the latest in a series of proceedings dating back to 1971. The book addresses the problem of air pollution and reports the latest findings and developments in air pollution modeling, from a truly international list of contributors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Major Twentieth Century Milestones in Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application....Pages 3-16
Why and How to Harmonise Air Pollution Impact Assessment Models?....Pages 17-23
How Should the Photochemical Modeling Systems Be used in Guiding Emissions Management Decisions?....Pages 25-34
Integrated Assessment Modelling of Abatement Stratedies: Role of Uncertainties....Pages 35-44
Intedrated Assessment of European Air Pollution Emission Control Strategies and Their Impact on the Flanders Region....Pages 45-53
A Highly Parameterized Regional Oxidant Model Imbedded in an Integrated, Game-Like Model Designed to Simulate Interaction between Environmental, Social and Economic Factors....Pages 55-63
Evaluation of Ammonia Emission Reductions in the Netherlandands using Measurements and the OPS Model....Pages 65-74
Chemical Transpory Model on-line Coupled with RAMS for Regional Chemical Climate....Pages 75-85
An Assessment of Modelling Ozone Control Abatement Strategies in Portugar: The Lisbon Urban Area....Pages 87-95
The Designation of Fuzzy Air Quality Management Areas....Pages 97-105
Application of Micrometeorological Model to Simulate Long-Term Deposition of Atmospheric Gases and Aerosols....Pages 107-114
Improving Short-Term Air Quality using Computer Model Presictions Bases on Meteorological Forecasts to Manage Power Station Emissions....Pages 115-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Air Quality Modelling for the Hong Kong Path Project....Pages 125-133
Study of the Transport and Diffusion Processes in the PBL using the RAMS and SPRAY Models: Application to the TRACT Experiment....Pages 135-143
Simulation of Photochemical Smog Episodes in Europe using Nesting Techniques and Different Model Evaluation Approaches....Pages 145-153
Modelling and Data Assimilation of Ozone....Pages 155-163
Atmospheric Transport Model Studies for Sweden — Comparison to EMEP Model Results and Evaluation of Precipitation Chemistry Station Networks....Pages 165-172
Establishment of a Model Network and Its Application for the Prediction of the Air Pollution in a Mesoscale Area....Pages 173-181
Quantifying the Export of Pollutants fron the Boundary Layer....Pages 183-192
Nonlinearities in the Sulfate Secondary Fine Particulate Response to NO x Emisions Reductions as Modeled by the Regional Acid Deposition Model....Pages 193-202
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Sensitivity of Ozone and Aerosol Predictions to the Transport Algorithms in the Models-3 Community Multi-Scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System....Pages 203-212
Integrated Regional Modeling of Ozone, Particulate Matter, and Deposition over the Eastern United States: Comparisons over Wet and Dry Episodes....Pages 213-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Long-Term Calculation of Hg Pollution over South-East Europe....Pages 227-235
A Comprehensive Eulerian Modeling Framework for Airborne Mercury Species: Model Development and Applications....Pages 237-245
Modeling of the Mercury Cycle in the Atmosphere....Pages 247-254
Long-Range Transport of Ozone from the North American Boundary Layer to Europe: Observations and Model Results....Pages 257-266
Simulation of Sulfate Aerosol in Ease ASIA using Models-3/CMAQ with RAMS Meteorological Data....Pages 267-275
Modeling of Muddy Rain Due to the Long-Range Transport of Yellow-Sand in East Asia....Pages 277-285
Effect of Biomass Burning on Tropospheric Chemistry in Southeast ASIA — A Numerical Simulation for September and October, 1994....Pages 287-296
Application of a New Land-Surface, Dry Deposition, and PBL Model in the Models-3 Community Multi-Scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model System....Pages 297-305
Transport of Air Pollution from Asia to North America....Pages 307-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
A Comparative Study of Two Photo-Oxidant Dispersion Models and Their Appicability for Regional Air Quaity Forecasting....Pages 317-326
Observations and Model Studies of Some Radiative Effects of Mineral Dust....Pages 327-334
Climate Effects of Sulphate and Black Carbon Estimated in a Global Climate Model....Pages 335-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
What did we Learn from the ETEX Experiment?....Pages 345-359
Adjoint Implementation of Rosenbrock Methods Applied to Variational Data Assimilation....Pages 361-369
The Development of the Australian Air Quality Forecasting System: Current Status....Pages 371-379
Iverse Modelling with a Lagrangian Particle Disperion Model: Application to Point Releases Over Limited Time Intervals....Pages 381-389
An Analytical Air Pollution Model: Eddy Diffusivities Depending on the Source Distance....Pages 391-397
Numerical Treatment of Aqueous-Phase Chemistry in Atmospheric Chemistry-Transport Modelling....Pages 399-407
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
A Model for Tropospheric Multiphase Chemistry: Application to One Cloudy Event During the CIME Experiment....Pages 409-417
Progress in Countre-Gradient Transport Theory....Pages 419-425
Parameterisation of Fluxes over a Sparse Boreal Forest at High Latitude....Pages 427-435
Dependence of Turbulent Velocity Variances on Scale and Stability....Pages 437-444
New Developments in Disrersion Experiments for the Convective Boundary Layer....Pages 445-454
Analysis and Pollution Implications of the E — ∈ Turbulence Model Predictions of the Neutral ABL....Pages 455-464
PLPM: A New Photochemical Lagrangian Particle Model. Basic Ideas and Preliminary Results....Pages 465-474
Adaptive Dispersion Modelling and Its Applicattion to Integrated Assessment and Hybrid Monitoring of Air Pollution....Pages 475-481
Artificial Neural Network-Based Environmental Models....Pages 483-492
Unsteady Behaviors of Gas-Aerosol Interactions Caused by Intra-Phase Mass Transfer Limitations — Unsteady Gas Aerosol Model (UGAM)....Pages 493-501
Spatial-Temporal Variability of Aerosol Optical Properties Simulated in CAM/GCMIII....Pages 503-510
Intercomparison of Photochemical Mechanisms using Response Surfaces and Process Analysis....Pages 511-519
An Evaluation of Two Advanced Turbulence Models for Simulating the Flow and Dispersion Around Buildings....Pages 521-530
Emissions Inventory Estimation Improvements using a Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation Method for Photochemical Air Quality Modeling....Pages 531-540
Adaptive Grids in Air Pollution Modeling: Towards an Operational Model....Pages 541-549
Effects of Urban and Industrial Roughness Obstacles on Maximum Pollutant Concentrations....Pages 551-559
Front Matter....Pages 561-561
Evaluation of the Concentration Fluctuation Predictive Power of the Kinematic Simulation Particle Model....Pages 563-571
Development of a New Operational Air Pollution Forecast System on Regional and Urban Scale....Pages 573-581
Evaluation of the Chemistry-Transport Model MECTM using TRACT-Measurements — Effect of Different Solvers for the Chemical Mechanism....Pages 583-590
Influence of Turbulence Parameterization on the Mixing Layer Height Prediction with a Mesoscale Model....Pages 591-604
Front Matter....Pages 561-561
Evaluation and Further Application of the Micro-Scale Photochemical Model MICRO-CALGRID....Pages 605-612
Challenges of Air Pollution Modeling and its Application in the Next Millennium....Pages 613-630
Inverse Transport Modeling of Non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Europe....Pages 631-640
In Situ Diagnostic or Nested Prognostic Mereorological Models to Drive Dispersion Simulations in Complex Area: A Comparison in a Real Application....Pages 641-649
First Results from Operational Testing of the U.S. EPA Models 3/ Community Multiscale Model for Air Quality (CMAQ)....Pages 651-658
Uncertainty in Dispersion Forecasting using Meteorological Ensembles....Pages 659-664
Comparison of Two Sampling Procedures for the Statistical Evaluation of the Performance of Atmospheric Dispersion Models in Estimating Centerline Concentration Values....Pages 665-673
Predicting NO x Concentration in Alpine Valleys using Applied Dispersion Modeling....Pages 675-681
MM5 Simulation of the Meteorological Conditions During a South Coast ozone study (SCOS’97) Episode....Pages 683-690
Front Matter....Pages 691-691
Modelling Photochemical Air Pollution in SÃo Paulo, Brazil....Pages 693-694
Environmental Impact of Bulgarian NNP ‘Kozloduy’....Pages 695-696
A First Order Lagrangian Stochastic Model for Long Range Transport....Pages 697-698
Disperion of Pollutants under Traffic Induced Flaw and Turbulence in Two Street Canyons Forming an Intersection....Pages 699-700
Extension of the Fast Spectral LINCOM Model to Flow over Complex Terrain with Thermal Stratification....Pages 701-702
Parameterization of Wet Deposition of Radionuclides....Pages 703-704
The Finnish Operational Emergency Model Framework....Pages 705-706
Combination of Different Procedures for Surface Ozone Forecast....Pages 707-708
Dispersion Modelling within the European Community’s New Air Quality Framework Directive — the German Approach....Pages 709-710
Experimental Investigation of the Trace Gas Composition of a City Plume....Pages 711-712
Utilization of Numerical Models as a Tool for Analyzing Ozone Production from Transportation Sources....Pages 713-714
Front Matter....Pages 691-691
Photochemical Modeling of a Wintertime Episode and HONO’s Role....Pages 715-716
Lagrangian Particle Simulation of an EPA Wind Tunnel Tracer Experiment in a Schematic Two-Dimensional Valley....Pages 717-718
The Determination of The Mixing Height: An Extended Version of The Safe_Air Dispersion Model....Pages 719-720
Comprehensive Acid Deposition Model and Its Application to Episodic Acid Deposition in East Asia....Pages 721-722
Evaluation of Possible Air Pollution Transport from Ignalina Nuclear Power Station in Regional Scale....Pages 723-724
Influence of Non-Linear Effects on Source-Receptor Matrices and Their Policy Oriented Applications to Emission Reduction in Europe....Pages 725-726
Estimation of the Influence of the Sources on Air Pollution and Its Pertubations in Given Region using the Adjoint Equations....Pages 727-728
Ozone Modeling of the Barcelona Area: Analysis of the Involved Transport Processes....Pages 729-730
Modeling Study of the Relationship between Photochemical Ozone and Its Preursor Emission of Nitrigen Oxides and Hydrocarbons in Northern Taiwan....Pages 731-732
Numerical and Physical Modeling of Urban Street Canyon Dispersion....Pages 733-734
Simulating Atmospheric Exposure using an Innovative Meteorological Sampling Scheme....Pages 735-736
Models-3/CMAQ Applications which Illustrate Capability and Functionality....Pages 737-738
A Proposal to Compile Past Atmospheric Dispersion Field Experiment Data for Easy Access and Model Evaluation....Pages 739-740
Regional Air Pollution Originating from Oil-Refinery Fires under War Conditions....Pages 741-742
Nesting of an Operational Air Quality Model (OPANA) into a Global Meteorological Spectral Model (RSM/NOAA): Preliminary Results....Pages 743-744

✦ Subjects

Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Meteorology/Climatology