Environmental Meteorology: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held in Würzburg, F. R. G. , 29 September - 1 October 1987

The VDI Commission on Air Pollution Prevention - in cooperation with the German Meteorological Society - presents in this book the proceedings of the first International Symposium on "Environmental Meteorology", held in Wurzburg (West Germany) from 29 September to 1 October 1987. The primary goal was to get together scientists, experts of the meteorological services, specialists of environmental boards, and consulting engineers of the European countries. An equally important objective was to provide a bench mark document in the resulting proceedings publication. The 1987 symposium shall start a series of symposia on all fields of environmental meteorology to be held once in three or four years in one of the European countries. We are full of hope to come to an intense cooperation with the national meteorological and environmental societies in the countries with this concern. We like to express our sincere appreciation to the authors for their efforts and attention to the quality shown herein. The credit must be extended to the session Chairmen and to the advisory committee for the selection of the papers. We think the book contributes substantially to a better understanding of meteorology being the link between emission and deposition of atmospheric pollutants. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Adequate Meteorological Measurements as a Prerequisite for the Assessment of Air Pollution....Pages 1-8 Optical Parameters, Soot Content, and Absorption Rates of Urban Particles....Pages 9-21 Optical and Physico-Chemical Properties of Tropospheric Aerosols in the Lee of the City of Karlsruhe....Pages 23-37 Dispersion of Car Emissions in the Vicinity of a Highway....Pages 39-47 Pollution Levels Near a Motorway in a Cutting....Pages 49-61 Volatilization of Halocarbons from a Sanitary Landfill Site....Pages 63-73 Measurements of the Contribution of a Coal-Fired Power Plant to the Overall Groundlevel Concentration of Air Pollutants by Using the SF 6 -Tracer Technique....Pages 75-92 Evaluation of a Model Performance with Data from a Large Power Plant....Pages 93-114 Behaviour of Air Pollutants under Inversion Weather Conditions....Pages 115-124 Air Pollutant Concentrations and Meteorology in Typical Pre-Alpine Landscapes....Pages 125-140 The Deposition of Trace Substances from the Atmosphere....Pages 141-160 A Numerical Method for Determining the Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Trace Constituents....Pages 161-181 The Importance of Heterogeneous Reasons for the Sulfate Formation in Plumes....Pages 183-191 Comparison of Various Precipitation Gauges and Sensors for the Determination of Wet Deposition....Pages 193-200 Experimental Investigations on the Deposition of Trace Elements in Forest Areas....Pages 201-216 Emission and Transport of Fugitive Dust from Sludge Deposits....Pages 217-226 Estimation of Wet Deposition Via Fog....Pages 227-236 Deviation Range of Annual Dry and Wet Deposition Rates....Pages 237-242 Wind Tunnel Modeling of Accidentally-Released Gases Heavier Than Air....Pages 243-254 Tracer Experiments to Estimate Diffusive Leakages and to Verify Dispersion Models....Pages 255-268 SMART — An Advanced Emergency Response Tool....Pages 269-278 The Sandoz Accident — Numerical Simulations of the Transport and the Dispersion of the Airborne Releases....Pages 279-290 Wind Tunnel Simulation of Accidental Releases in Chemical Plants....Pages 291-303 Spatial and Temporal Structures of the Urban Climate — A Survey....Pages 305-333 Energetic Feedback between Urban Climate and Diffusion of Atmospheric Pollutants....Pages 335-344 Numerical Modelling of the Urban Climate....Pages 345-358 Green in Urban Climate....Pages 359-379 Analysis of an Orographically Influenced Wind System....Pages 381-395 Synthetic Wind Climatology evaluated by the Non-Hydrostatic Numerical Mesoscale Model KAMM....Pages 397-411 Airborne Measurements to Investigate the Transport and the Chemistry of Polluted Air Leeside of the City of Munich....Pages 413-424 The Determination of Mixing Heights by Sodar in an Urban Environment....Pages 425-444 SO 2 Calculations in Several Danish Cities....Pages 445-460 Urban Redevelopment under Consideration of Climatological Aspects....Pages 461-472 Field Evaluation of a Fluctuating Plume Model for Odours with Sniffing Teams....Pages 473-486 The Influence of a Building on the Dispersion of Emissions from Low Chimneys....Pages 487-495 Modelling Dispersion of Air Pollutants Emitted by Power Stations Using Fluctuations of Wind Direction....Pages 497-513 Performance Evaluation of Air Pollution Impact Assessment Models: Fifteen Years of Practical Experience....Pages 515-530 Numerical Case Studies of Air Pollution in and Around Urban Agglomeration Areas During Inversion Situations....Pages 531-544 Modelling of the SO 2 Dispersion Over Baden-Württemberg....Pages 545-557 Modeling of the Wind Field and the Dispersion of Reactive Pollutants....Pages 559-573 Flow Modelling in Complex Terrain for Atmospheric Applications....Pages 575-583 Application of Long-Range Transport Models in the Framework of Control Strategies: Example of Photochemical Air Pollution....Pages 585-611 Using Emission Inventories to Simulate the Air Pollution in Berlin (West)....Pages 613-629 Fate Simulation of Organic Substances in the Atmospheric Mixing Layer....Pages 631-648 Dispersion Modeling Using Personal Computers....Pages 649-661 Proceedings of an International Symposium,held in Wurzburg, FRG, September 29-October 1, 1987