Elevated stacks’ pollutants’ dispersion and its contributions to photochemical smog formation in a heavily industrialized area

Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 213-227

  Aidaoui, Lakhdar ^a   Triantafyllou, Athanasios G ^b   Azzi, Abbes ^a   Garas, Stylianos K ^b   Matthaios, Vasileios N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Industrial emissions; Mesoscale model; Meteorology effect; Ozone; Photochemical simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939873238     PISSN: 18739318     EISSN: 18739326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11869-014-0300-9     Document Type: Article

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