Meteorological factors influencing the occurrence of air pollution episodes involving chimney plumes

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-210

  Fisher, Bernard ^a,b  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CHIMNEYS; POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION EPISODES; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CHIMNEY PLUME; DISPERSION MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; RANGE DISPERSION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; FUMIGATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 0042194456     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702002050     Document Type: Article

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