"First published in 2002 by Horwood Publishing Limited. Reprinted by Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2012."

Written by a distinguished international scientist, who has made fundamental contributions on the climatic relationship between air pollution and meteorology, the book provides a compendium of realistic examples of air pollution behaviour. After commencing with a general survey he takes us through a study of diffusion mechanisms including pollution from industrial chimneys and road traffic. Air pollution meteorology covers boundary layer scaling, pre-processing meteorological data, air quality management, urban meteorology, and atmospheric chemistry (oxides of nitrogen are central to ozone chemistry) with accounts of typical air pollution episodes and a brief dictionary of air pollutants. Provides a compendium of realistic examples of air pollution behaviourIncludes a comprehensive study of diffusion mechanisms, including pollution from industrial chimneys and road trafficCovers boundary layer scaling, pre-processing meteorological data, air quality management, urban meteorology, air pollution and atmospheric chemistry.

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Front Cover; Air Pollution; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1. Pollution over Flat Country; THE STABILITY OF THE AIR; STABLE AIR; UNSTABLE AIR; FUMIGATION; THE CLOUD-BASE INVERSION; RADIAGTION FROM CLOUDS; CHAPTER 2. Dilution: Formulae and Mechanisms; DISPERSION BY WIND: THE MEANING OF AVERAGES; THE EFFECT OF WIND SPEED AND GROUND HEATING; CONICAL AND PARABOLIC PLUMES; PLUMES CONFINED IN LAYERS; AREA SOURCES; HOT PLUMES: EQUILIBRIUM LEVEL, BIFURCATION, PLUME RISE; DILUTION NEAR BUILDINGS; CHAPTER 3. High Level Inversions; CAUSES.

ANTICYCLONIC GLOOMPENETRATION OF INVERSIONS BY HOT PLUMES; THE PERMANENCE OF INVERSIONS; INVERSIONS BEHIND COLD FRONTS AND SHOWERS; CHAPTER 4. Ground and Valley Inversions; KATABATIC WINDS; HOT SOURCES IN VALLEYS; ANABATIC WINDS; POLLUTION ON HILLSIDES; DIFFERENT KINDS OF SMOG; CHAPTER 5. Wet and Coloured Plumes and Natural Pollution; WHITE AND DARK PLUMES; STEAM; COLOURED PLUMES OF SMOKE, MIST, OR DUST; NATURAL AIR POLLUTION; CHAPTER 6. Separation CAUSES OF SEPARATION; DOWNWASH; SEPARATION ON CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS; SEPARATION ON BUILDINGS; COLD INFLOW INTO CHIMNEYS; CHIMNEY TOP DESIGN.

CHAPTER 7. Some Effects of Air PollutionSMELLS; HEALTH AND OTHER AMENITIES: SOME MISCONCEPTIONS; BLACKENING OF SURFACES; EXPANSION AND CORROSION; CHAPTER 8. Repercussions; DOMESTIC PROBLEMS; LARGE CHIMNEYS; BACKGROUND POLLUTION; INDEX.

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