Advances in Geophysics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Turbulent Diffusion in Environmental Pollution 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Chapter 1. Limitations and Prospects in the Estimation of Dispersion of Pollution on a Regional Scale 18
Chapter 2. Basic Characteristics of Global Scale Diffusion in the Troposphere 32
Chapter 3. Global Scale Atmospheric Mixing 50
Chapter 4. Studies of Interhemispheric Exchange in the Troposphere by a Diffusion Model 74
Chapter 5. Review of Trajectory Methods 90
Chapter 6. Some Aspects of the Use of Air Trajectories for the Computation of Large-Scale Dispersion and Fallout Patterns 112
Chapter 7. Study Of Regional Particulate Pollution In The Detroit-Windsor,Sarnia-Port Huron Area 128
Chapter 8. Mesoscale Pollution Transport in the Netherlands 144
Chapter 9. Large-Scale Transport of Air Pollutants 154
Chapter 10. Mesoscale Dispersion From a Large 168
Chapter 11. Mathematical Modelling of Urban Pollution 176
Chapter 12. Urban Meteorological Modelling…Some Rellevant Studies 190
Chapter 13. Computer and Laboratory Modeling of the Vetical Diffusion of Non-Buoyant Particles in the Mixed Layer 204
Chapter 14. Observed and Calculated Magnitudes and Distances of Maximum Ground Level Concentration of Gaseous Effluent Material Downwind of a Tall Stack 218
Chapter 15. Physical Modeling of Flow and Diffusion Over an Urban Heat Island 240
Chapter 16. Laboratory Simulation of Atmospheric Turbulence:Generation of Arbitrary Velocity Distributions and Model Experiment on Flow Around Mt.Fuji 258
Chapter 17. Unsteady Turbulent Puffs 270
Chapter 18. Experimental Study of Diffusion Processes in Unstable Stratified Boundary Layers 282
Chapter 19. Comparison of Thermally Neutral and Unstable Shear Flows in The Wind Tunnel and the Atmosphere 290
Chapter 20. Entrainment by a Multiple Source Turbulent Jet 306
Chapter 21. Critical Points in Flow Patterns 316
Chapter 22. Distorted Wakes 334
Chapter 23. Gas Transfer Near the Earth's Surface 346
Chapter 24. Turbulent Diffusion of Rapidly Reacting Chemical Species 358
Chapter 25. Chemical Reactions Calculations in Turbulent Flows:Application to a Co-Containing Turbojet Plume 366
Chapter 26. Abstracts of Papers not Published in Full 384
Chapter 27. On Simple Models for Simulation of Nonlinear Processes in Convection and Turbulence 386
Chapter 28. Effect of Buoyancy on the Genertion of a Turbulent Mixing Layer1 387
Chapter 29. "Bursts"in Turbulent Flows 389
Chapter 30. Lagrangian Similarity Applied to Diffusion in the Planetary Boundary Layer 390
Chapter 31. Turbulent Dispersion from Sources Near Two-Dimensional Obstacles 391
Chapter 32. Wet Fallout of Sulfurous Pollutants Emitted from a City During Rain or Snow 392
Chapter 33. Wind Structure in the Planetary Boundary Layer,Its Relation to the Diurnal Cycle and Nonuniformity of Surface Temperature 394
Chapter 34. Deposition of So2 by Gaseous Diffusion 395
Chapter 35. Study of Topographical Effects on Dispersion of Pollution 397
Appendix: Program of the Symposium 398
Subject Index 402