Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion, CSI 909

Content: This last quarter of the twentieth century can be distinguished by the vastly increased awareness of our natural environment among people all over the world and their heightened desire to restore and preserve the high quality of their environment as an integral part of the quality life. This clearly reflected in the tremendous growth in media coverage as well as in the scientific and popular literature on environmental problems of our earth, atmosphere, and oceans. In particular, the most serious problems of our atmospheric environment, such as local and urban air pollution, regional haze, photochemical smog, acidic precipitation, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global climate change, have received tremendous public attention during the decades of eighties and nineties. Particularly in recent years, national security concerns have expanded beyond nuclear to include chemical, biological, and radiological releases. Potential scenarios range from a wide spectrum of accident response to countering urban terrorism threats. Therefore, the potential for the release into the atmosphere of hazardous materials (such as Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear, CBRN) is an increasing problem in this technological age. This is a cause for concern because the exposure of large populations to military and terrorist activities presents the possibility of mass casualties when weapons of mass destruction are used. Consequently, there is strong need a course in area of atmospheric transport and dispersion. This course deals with natural development or review of the basic concepts, theories, and models of pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere and the related atmospheric systems affecting transport, transformation, and removal of air pollutants.

Textbook: An introduction to Micrometeorology (S. Pal Arya)

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