Assessing the impact of the new Athens airport to urban air quality with contemporary air pollution models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1497-1511

  Moussiopoulos, N ^a   Sahm, P ^a   Karatzas, K ^a   Papalexiou, S ^a   Karagiannidis, A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution modeling; Airport emissions; Comparison with measurements; Numerical algorithms

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREECE; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WIND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRPORT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLOW; MODEL; MODELLING APPROACH; URBAN AREA;

GREECE, ATHENS; GREECE, MESOGIA PLAIN, SPARTA;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRPORTS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

CONTEMPORARY AIR POLLUTION MODELS; URBAN AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 0030616160     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00283-X     Document Type: Article

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