Prediction and Regulation of Air Pollution
The book is an updated revision and translation of the 1985 Russian book, Prognoz i Regulivrovanie Zagriazneniia Atmosfery. According to the preface, some sections of the Russian version were reduced because of declining interest, while other sections were expanded. In fact the number of chapters has grown from seven to ten, but the levels of subdivision of those chapters was reduced. The Russian origins of the book account for the strength in Russian and eastern European references; they constitute more than one-third of the 515 references that are included. Of that third, nearly one-third (52) have Berlyand as sole or first author. The other strength of the book is that points of view are presented that differ from those commonly found in United States literature; the differences are of two types. First, the concept of on-line, real-time regulation of source emissions, which is not a widely used approach here, seems to provide the one unifying theme of the book. Second, the approach to the solution of mathematical problems is much more oriented toward simplifications that allow analytical solutions to be found, rather than simplifications for the purpose of obtaining numerical solutions on a computer. This book emphasizes the control of emissions when they need to be controlled. This is an idea that has fallen out of favor in the United States, where prediction and regulation have come to mean the identification of [open quotes]worst cases[close quotes] from historical in formation (a rather contrary definition of prediction), and the identification of the emission levels required to prevent concentrations from exceeding established acceptable levels (regulation) under similar conditions in the future. The two approaches have considerable overlap in the technical questions that need to be addressed and answered, but they represent appreciably different philosophies of control.
- OSTI ID:
- 7183585
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Francis Ludwig, San Jose State Univ., CA, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 73, No. 5 (May 1992) $175.00
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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