The use of AERMOD air pollution dispersion models to estimate residential ambient concentrations of elemental mercury

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 219, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 377-388

  Heckel, Pamela Funderburg ^a,b   Lemasters, Grace K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

AERMOD; Dispersion modeling; Exposure estimates; GIS; Mercury; Risk characterization; Stack height; Topography

Indexed keywords

AERMOD; DISPERSION MODELING; EXPOSURE ESTIMATES; RISK CHARACTERIZATION; STACK HEIGHT;

AIR QUALITY; ESTIMATION; HEALTH RISKS; LANDFORMS; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

MERCURY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUFFER ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; GIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METEOROLOGY; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION MODEL; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BOILER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; METEOROLOGY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959379992     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0714-4     Document Type: Article

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