Mathematical Modeling - Nature & Environment, Mathematical Modeling - General & Miscellaneous, Mechanical Physics - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
The last two decades of the twentieth century can be distinguished by the increased awareness of our natural environment among people all over the world and their desire to restore and preserve the high quality of their environment as an integral part of the quality of life. This is clearly reflected in the tremendous growth in the scientific literature on environmental problems as well as in the growth in media coverage. In particular, the most serious problems of our atmospheric environment, such as urban air pollution, regional haze, acidic precipitation, ozone depletion, hurricane prediction, emergency response problems (such as the Chernobyl disaster and Kuwaiti burning oil fields), and global climate change, have received tremendous attention. The consequences of most of these problems are truly international and occur over mesoscale travel distances.In response to the increased interest in this field, many universities now offer interdisciplinary programs in environmental sciences. Many governmental and private organizations also support environmental projects in this field. Consequently, there is an increased need for a suitable book in this field for graduate students and professional researchers. This was indeed the primary motivation for publishing this book.
The organization of the book in a sequence of sixteen chapters follows review of basic concepts, theories, and modeling issues of pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere and the related atmospheric tems affecting transport, transformation, and removal of air pollutants over mesoscale travel distances.
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Rather than local dispersion, from a single industrial pollution source or military battleground, meteorologists here look at such larger phenomena as urban air pollution and the behavior of urban-scale plume downwind of large industrialized cities, regional haze, photochemical smog, acidic precipitation, accidental toxic gas and radioactive releases, and stratospheric ozone depletion. In nine commissioned review articles, they summarize basic concepts, theories and models of mesoscale atmospheric dispersion and the related atmospheric system affecting the transport, diffusion, transformation, and removal of air pollutants. Each article is independent. They are not indexed. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 15, 2000
Publisher
WIT Press
Pages
448
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781853127328