Air pollution processes in regional scale : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Air Pollution Processes in Regional Scale, Kallithea, Halkidiki, Greece, 13-15 June 2002

An understanding of long-range transport of air pollutants in the atmosphere requires a knowledge of the relevant atmospheric dynamic and chemical processes active at the regional scale as well as the temporal and spatial distribution of emissions. Numerical modeling is the most efficient way to determine the atmospheric transport, photochemistry and deposition pathways. The book therefore discusses the physical and chemical processes that determine regional air pollution and presents the relevant modeling techniques to describe the different atmospheric processes that are active at that scale. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Analysis and Source Determination of Chemical Deposition in Five Different Regions of İstanbul, Turkey....Pages 1-10 Connection Between Emissions and Concentrations of Atmospheric Pollutants....Pages 11-19 Use of Richardson Number Methods in Regional Models to Calculate the Mixed-Layer Height....Pages 21-29 Analyzing on — Line Measurements of SO 2 Pollution for Tirana City....Pages 31-36 Operator Splitting and Global Error Analysis....Pages 37-44 Simple Pollution Transport Model with Parameterized Vertical Structure....Pages 45-53 Spatial Dependence and Horizontal Interpolation of Ozone Concentrations from Vertical Lidar Measurements in the Aegean Sea....Pages 55-63 Evaluation Techniques for Regional Models....Pages 65-78 A Brief Survey of the Air Polution Modeling Activities, Carried Out in the Institute of Geophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....Pages 79-86 Probabilistic Assessment of Regional Scale Ozone Pollution in the Eastern United States....Pages 87-96 Parallel Implementations of the Euros Model: The Algorithm and Some Preliminary Results....Pages 97-105 Meteorological Data for Regional Model Validation....Pages 107-119 Sources Regions Affecting Chemical Composition of Aerosols and Precipitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Atmosphere Determined Using Trajectory Statistics....Pages 121-133 The Estonian Mesoscale Air Pollution Model....Pages 135-143 Deposition Fluxes of Acidifying Compounds on the Territory of Belarus....Pages 145-152 Measurements of Rural Surface Ozone at a Remote Island Site in the NE Aegean Sea: Indications of Regional / Transboundary Transport....Pages 153-160 Regional Transport of Air Pollutants in Greece, As Seen from the Aliartos Station....Pages 161-168 Regional / Local Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants from Forest Fires....Pages 169-175 An Application of Regional Pollutant Transport Modelling for Environmental Management....Pages 177-184 Estimation of a State of an Environment by the Use of the Observations and Mathematical Models....Pages 185-190 Regional Ozone in the Eastern Mediterranean: How Well Do Models Perform? A Comparison Between Published Model Results and Observations....Pages 191-193 MM5 Fine Grid Simulations Over Athens Area, Greece: Assessment of One-Year Operational Use....Pages 195-201 Modeling of Aerosol Processes in the Mediterranean Area....Pages 203-210 Assessment of Atmospheric Impacts on Human Beings an a Regional Scale....Pages 211-219 Atmospheric Air Pollution Regional Background Formation at the Eastern Coast of the Baltic Sea....Pages 221-229 Evaluation of Two Mesoscale Photochemical Numerical Systems During an Ozone Episode....Pages 231-239 Modern Computational Technologies for the Estimation of Atmospheric Processes on Regional Scales....Pages 241-248 Atmospheric Dispersion Simulation for a Nuclear Accident in the Black Sea Area Using a Lagrangian Puff Model....Pages 249-255 A Tool to Evaluate the Air Quality Impact of Industrial Plants by Using MM5-CMAQ....Pages 257-264 Atmospheric Aerosol Chemical and Physical Processes....Pages 265-280 Mesoscale Circulations and Regional Air Pollution....Pages 281-294 A System for Interpretation and Short-Range Forecast of Radiation Background in North-West Bulgaria (RINFOR)....Pages 295-303 NIMH Emergency Response System in Case of Nuclear Accident....Pages 305-313 Mesoscale Dynamics....Pages 315-331 Interpretation of Aerosol Properties to Comment on Their Natural and Anthropogenic Sources....Pages 333-340 On the Absolute Maximal Concentrations of Polydispersive Particles from a Gaussian Plume Model Under Unstable Conditions....Pages 341-346 Parameterization of PBL from the Surface Wind and Stability Classes Data....Pages 347-364 Seasonal Variation of the Photochemical Control of Ozone in the Lower Free Troposphere Based on Observations from the Free Tropospheric Experiments at Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps....Pages 365-372 Large Scale Air Pollution Models....Pages 373-384 Summary of the Discussion in the Workgroup on “Meteorological and Deposition Processes that Determine Regional Air Pollution”....Pages 385-388 Summary of the Discussion in the Workgroup on “Chemistry Processes in Regional Scale”....Pages 389-392 Summary of the Discussion in the Workgroup on “Contemporary Modelling Techniques Including Model Evaluation”....Pages 393-395 Nato Advanced Research Workshop “Air Pollution Processes in Regional Scale”....Pages 397-399 Back Matter....Pages 401-408

Melas (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece) and Syrakov (National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria) present 39 papers from the eponymous June, 2002 NATO Advanced Research Workshop. The papers examine numerical modeling techniques for understanding the long-range transport of air pollutants in the atmosphere and recent research into the regional meteorological and chemical processes needed to increase the sophistication of models. Types of air pollutant modeling addressed include the spread of ozone, aerosol processes in the Mediterranean area, pollutants from industrial plants, and the possible case of a nuclear accident. Brief discussions of technical measures of model accuracy and financial sources for model evaluation are also included. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The phenomenon of acid deposition is one of the most important global problems, and has been the subject of extensive research in North America. Canada, and Scandinavian Countries for the past 40 years. Studies have also shown that acid deposition occurs in many other regions, including China, Japan, Israel, Arabia, Russia, South America and Turkey (Ahmed et al. [1], Singer et al. [11], Carmichael and Arndt [5], Gulsoy et al. [7]). Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Kallithea, Halkidiki, Greece, from 13 to 15 June 2003