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Air Quality Assessment And Control Of Emission Rates

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Mathematical methods based on the adjoint model approach are given for the air-pollution estimation and control in an urban region. A simple advection–diffusion-reaction model and its adjoint are used to illustrate the application of the methods. Dual pollution concentration estimates in ecologically important zones are derived and used to develop two non-optimal strategies and one optimal strategy for controlling the emission rates of enterprises. A linear convex combination of these strategies represents a new sufficient strategy. A method for detecting the enterprises, which violate the emission rates prescribed by a control, is given. A method for determining an optimal position for a new enterprise in the region is also described.

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  1. Laboratorio de Modelación Matemática de Procesos Atmosféricos, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F., Mexico

    Yuri N. Skiba & David Parra-Guevara

  2. Departamento de Meteorología, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Comisión Nacional del Agua, Av. Observatorio 192, Col. Observatorio, México, D.F., Mexico

    Davydova Valentina Belitskaya

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Skiba, Y.N., Parra-Guevara, D. & Belitskaya, D.V. Air Quality Assessment And Control Of Emission Rates. Environ Monit Assess 111, 89–112 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-8040-9

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