Overview

In regions as densely populated as Western Europe, prediction of the ecological implications of pollutant transport are important in order to minimise damage in the case of accidents, and to evaluate the possible influence of existing or planned sources. In most cases, such predictions depend on high-speed computation. This textbook presents a mathematically explicit introduction in eight chapters: 1: An introduction to the basics of fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and the local events and mesoscale processes. 2: The types of PDEs describing atmospheric flows for limited area models, the problem of appropriate boundary conditions describing the topographical constraints, and well-posedness. 3: Thermodynamics of the atmosphere, dry and wet, its stability, and radiation processes, budgets and the influence of their sum. 4: Scaling and similarity laws for stable and convective turbulent atmospheric boundary layers and the influence of inhomogeneous terrain on the advection and the vertical dispersion, and the method of large eddy simulation. 5: Statistical processes in turbulent dispersion, turbulent diffusion and chemical reactions in fluxes. 6: Theoretical modelling of diffusion and dispersion of pollutant gases. 7: The influence of urban heat production on local climate. 8: Atmospheric inversion layers and lapping inversion, the stable boundary layer and nocturnal inversion.

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Author:   A. Gyr ,  Franz-S. Rys
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9780792332602

ISBN 10:   0792332601
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   31 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I Introduction to the fluid mechanics of meso-scale flow fields.- II Boundary Conditions and Treatment of Topography in Limited-Area Models.- III Thermodynamic and Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere.- IV Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Processes and Influence of Inhomogeneous Terrain.- V Some topics in turbulent diffusion.- VI Modelling Diffusion and Dispersion of Pollutants.- VII Climatology of Cities.- VIII Inversion layers.

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