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This chapter is concerned with the advection and dispersion of materials released in the atmospheric boundary layer. Historical interest in the diffusion problem has been motivated primarily by the need for predicting concentration of air pollutants from smokestacks. Further advances are made by micrometeorologists engaged in surface flux measurement in heterogeneous landscapes. They find it necessary to map out a source footprint impacting their measured flux, using footprint models which are essentially extensions of the traditional diffusion theory concerning pollution sources located at the ground level.
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Lee, X. (2018). Tracer Diffusion in the Lower Boundary Layer. In: Fundamentals of Boundary-Layer Meteorology. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60853-2_7
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