Modeling and surface observations of arsenic dispersion from a large Cu-smelter in southwestern Europe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 114-122

  Chen, Bing ^a   Stein, Ariel F ^b   Castell, Nuria ^c   de la Rosa, Jesus D ^a   Sanchez de la Campa, Ana M ^a   Gonzalez Castanedo, Yolanda ^a   Draxler, Roland R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^c FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Emission and transport; HYSPLIT; WRF

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC POLLUTION; ATLANTIC CYCLONES; CONCENTRATION MAPS; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMAN HEALTH; HYSPLIT; LAGRANGIAN; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL PHYSICS; PREVAILING WINDS; SEA BREEZE CIRCULATION; SINGLE PARTICLE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TARGET LEVELS; TOTAL EMISSIONS; TOURIST AREAS; TOXIC ELEMENTS; URBAN AREAS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WRF;

ARSENIC; DATA PROCESSING; DISPERSIONS; SMELTING; STORMS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ARSENIC; COPPER;

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEA BREEZE; SMELTING; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; HYBRID SINGLE PARTICLE LAGRANGIAN INTEGRATED TRAJECTORY MODEL; METEOROLOGY; PLUME DISPERSION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION; SMELTER; SPAIN; URBAN AREA; WIND;

ANDALUCIA; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84856518065     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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