An Empirical Hybrid Model for the Assessment of Daily SO2, Concentrations in an Urban Environment

✍ Scribed by Walter Hecq; Youri Borisov; Claire Debever; Jean-Marie Dupierreux

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 550 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-4797
• DOI: 10.1006/jema.1994.1068

✦ Synopsis

An empirical model with a hybrid statistical-deterministic distribution designed for the assessment of daily (\mathrm{SO}{2}) concentrations in an urban environment has been developed and tested on the network of stations monitoring atmospheric (\mathrm{SO}{2}) in the Brussels Capital Region. This model makes it possible to determine the relative degrees of responsibility for (\mathrm{SO}_{2}) air pollution of the three main areas of human activity - indoor heating, motor vehicle traffic and industry - associated with the consumption of fossil energy. The model uses three types of variables-economic, meteorological and environmentalavailable or assessable for an urban area and has been applied to the 1981-1990 period.