Air quality modeling of hazardous pollutants: Current status and future directions

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 547-558

  Touma, Jawad S ^a   Isakov, Vlad ^a   Chin, Jason ^a   Seigneur, Christian ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; IMPURITIES;

CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; GAUSSIAN DISPERSION MODELS; GRID-BASED MODELS; HAZARDOUS POLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC WASTE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33646819319     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2006.10464480     Document Type: Article

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