Emission source specification in a regional pollutant transport model

Conference · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5646655

McNaughton, D. J.

A series of sensitivity and verification tests are examined to evaluate various means of emission source specification in a regional model. The regional air quality model incorporates pollutant transport, dispersion, chemical transformation, dry deposition, and precipitation scavenging of primary and secondary pollutants. It is currently under development and evaluation for sulfur oxide predictions as part of the Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study (MAP3S). The effects of spatial averaging of emissions as would be applicable to models using gridded emissions as input are discussed. The analysis makes use of observed ambient air concentration data for sulfate and sulfur dioxide and sulfate concentrations in precipitation. Cases for study were selected from the intensive study periods of the Sulfate Regional Experiment of the Electric Power Research Institute.

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-06-1830
• OSTI ID: 5646655
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-7541; CONF-7910137-1
• Resource Relation: Conference: WMO symposium on long-range transport of pollutants, Sophia, Bulgaria, 10 Oct 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
SULFATES
MONITORING
SULFUR DIOXIDE
AIR POLLUTION
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SCAVENGING
CHALCOGENIDES
MASS TRANSFER
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR OXIDES
500200* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)