Climate change and its effect on wet-removal processes

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5475227

Hales, J M ^[1]

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1. Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)

Because of the potential for simultaneous change of multiple meterological variables, it is difficult to predict with certainty the impact of future climate change on the wet removal of atmospheric pollutants. In view of this situation it is often expedient to perform modeling sensitivity analyses, wherein individual key variables are allowed to vary while all others are held constant. This paper presents the results of one such analysis, wherein a warm-frontal storm model has been executed to compute scavenging of nitrogen and sulfur compounds. The temperature boundary conditions are varied from one simulation to the next, while those for other meterological and chemical fields (absolute humidity, winds, pollutants) are held fixed. Comparison of predicted wet-deposition rates from these simulations provides considerable insight on the potential impact of climatic temperature changes on the wet cleansing of the atmosphere.

• OSTI ID: 5475227
• Report Number(s): CONF-881143-
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 27 Nov - 2 Dec 1988; Other Information: Technical Paper 127C
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
58 GEOSCIENCES
CLIMATES
GLOBAL ASPECTS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
AIR POLLUTION
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
CLIMATE MODELS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
FORECASTING
HUMIDITY
METEOROLOGY
POLLUTANTS
SCAVENGING
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
VARIATIONS
WIND
CHEMISTRY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
POLLUTION
SIMULATION
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