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Long-term plume models

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Urban Air Pollution Modelling

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In the introduction to section 3.3 it was stressed that, because there are an extremely large number of combinations of plume rise equations, wind direction and speed class, vertical wind profile laws, number and specification of stability classes, choice of dispersion parameters and mixing heights, etc., each air pollution specialist could have his own particular gaussian plume model. A list of the gaussian long-term models, as complete as possible up to the beginning of 1977, was provided by Jost and Gutsche (1977) in the form of a table, and most of the variants listed either are basically identical with one of the main prototypes discussed below or represent experimental programmes only which have not yet attained widespread use.

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    Michel M. Benarie Chem. Eng., D.Sc. (Head of Department of Air Pollution)

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Benarie, M.M. (1980). Long-term plume models. In: Urban Air Pollution Modelling. Air Pollution Problems Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03639-4_11

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