Improvements to the EPA industrial source complex dispersion model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1088-1095

  Atkinson, Dennis G ^a,b   Bailey, Desmond T ^a,b   Irwin, John S ^a,b   Touma, Jawad S ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DISPERSION; PLUME;

AIR QUALITY; DISPERSION; PLUME;

EID: 0031398309     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<1088:ITTEIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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