Modelling the removal of gaseous pollutants and particulate matters from the atmosphere of a city by rain: Effect of cloud density

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 255-263

  Shukla, J B ^b,c   Sundar, Shyam ^a   Misra, A K ^d   Naresh, Ram ^a  

^a HARCOURT BUTLER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Centre for Modelling Environment and Development   (India)

^c LNM INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d BND College   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud density; Gaseous pollutants; Particulate matters; Precipitation; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DROPS; FOG; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLOUD DENSITY; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; GRAVITATIONAL SETTLINGS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; REVERSIBLE REACTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD DROPLET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RAINDROP; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 40849111581     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-007-9085-7     Document Type: Article

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