Book Description

This book focuses on air pollution modeling in coast-valley environments. This includes the assessment of airborne pollutant emissions, transport, and depletion and the related chemistry. Modeling the coast-valley environments is characterized by a high level of complexity due to the concurrent presence of complex orography and land-sea interface. As a first effect, both sea/land breezes and mountain/valley breezes are present and this book will show how they can be precisely modeled, including their interactions. Moreover, these areas are often densely inhabited and settled by industries and many other activities. To make things more complex, there is, often, a strongly uneven distribution of human activities, vegetation, roads and whatsoever other emission sources.

Several other issues arise from the special wind regimes, especially in summer scenarios. As an example, breezes can trigger recirculation of pollutants while breeze fronts can generate pollution episodes. This book presents several techniques and case studies to help understand and model such special regimes. Also chemistry of airborne pollutants is very special in coast-valley environments. As an example photochemical smog behavior can be very unique (e.g. Coastal Ozone). This book will explain such peculiarities and will give advice for the modeling of such phenomena.

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