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Fundamentals for the Application of a Gaussian Plume Model

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Air Pollution

Part of the book series: NATO · Challenges of Modern Society ((NATS,volume 2))

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The purpose of this document is to give information on the capabilities, applicability and limitations of a special deterministic model to calculate ambient air pollution concentrations, the Gaussian plume model. This model utilizes an emissions inventory, meteorological parameters, and equations which describe mathematically the physical process of turbulent transport of air pollutants in the lower atmosphere to calculate concentrations.

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Weber, E. (1982). Fundamentals for the Application of a Gaussian Plume Model. In: Weber, E. (eds) Air Pollution. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9131-0_4

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