Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality. [Philadelphia environs]

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6028093

Patrinos, A A.N.

Results from an acid rain field study around the city of Philadelphia are presented. The study involved the sampling of wet deposition at a network of 40 sites within a distance of 60 km from the Delaware River. Emphasis was placed on event-type rain sampling of frontal and primarily nonconvective storms which are responsible for most of the Northeast's wet deposition. For most storms, meteorological conditions contributed to a predominant southeasterly transport. Since most of the area's urban and industrial emissions occur along the Delaware River, the Pennsylvania sector of the network was identified as the downwind (target) region; the New Jersey sector was the upwind (control) region.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6028093
• Report Number(s): PB-87-209318/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Pub. in Jnl. of the Air Pollution Control Association, Vol. 35, No. 7, 719-727(Jul 1985)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACID RAIN
WASHOUT
AIR POLLUTION
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
PENNSYLVANIA
URBAN AREAS
DELAWARE RIVER
STORMS
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
DISASTERS
FEDERAL REGION III
NORTH AMERICA
POLLUTION
PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING
RAIN
RIVERS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
STREAMS
SURFACE WATERS
USA
500200* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)