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6 - Atmospheric Dispersion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

Christian Seigneur
Christian Seigneur
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École des Ponts Paris Tech
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Atmospheric dispersion is a very important process in air pollution. The use of tall stacks to minimize the impacts of air pollutant emissions reflected the saying that “the solution to pollution is dilution.” Although this saying turned out to be wrong for several reasons, including the cumulative effect of a large number of individual sources and the formation of secondary pollutants at large regional scales, atmospheric dispersion is nevertheless one of the key processes that govern air pollution levels. This chapter presents the fundamental processes of atmospheric dispersion, their theoretical basis, as well as the advantages and shortcomings of different types of atmospheric dispersion models.

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Air Pollution
Concepts, Theory, and Applications
 , pp. 95 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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