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In most cases, pollutants injected into ambient air possess a higher temperature than the surrounding air. Most industrial pollutants, moreover, are emitted from smokestacks or chimneys and therefore possess an initial vertical momentum. Both factors (thermal buoyancy and vertical momentum) contribute to increasing the average height of the plume above that of the smokestack. This process terminates when the plume’s initial buoyancy is lost by mixing with ambient air.
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Zannetti, P. (1990). Plume Rise. In: Air Pollution Modeling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4465-1_5
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