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The fate of pollutants released into the environment is governed by complex systems. Acid deposition is governed by such a system. It consists of a large number of interacting processes, which include gas-phase and aqueous-phase chemistry of the relevant pollutants, meteorology, cloud physics, and the dry and wet scavenging of pollutants. Each of these processes is itself very complex. For example, the gas-phase chemistry that leads to the formation of sulfuric and nitric acids from their precursors, SO2 and NOx, involves at least 100 reactions among 50 species. Ideally, a model of the acid deposition system would incorporate all our understanding of the component processes. In practice, this is not possible for a number of reasons, the most important of which are the large manpower and the computational resources required to develop such a model.
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Venkatram, A. (1991). Comprehensive Models for Environmental Systems. In: van Dop, H., Steyn, D.G. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application VIII. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3720-5_77
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