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It is evident that pollutant concentration distributions are only an indication of the wind field. At the same time, it has been observed that the log-normal function is a convenient empirical representation of the wind velocity distribution (Benarie, 1969). The fact that we are concerned at this point with a rough approximation appropriate to the argument that follows below (without pretending to describe general physical properties of the wind) was stressed and in a subsequent discussion by Benarie (1972, appendix); Benkala and Seinfeld (1976) also discussed this.
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Benarie, M.M. (1980). Relationships between the wind field and the concentration. In: Urban Air Pollution Modelling. Air Pollution Problems Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03639-4_15
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