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Uses and Needs for Air Quality Modeling

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A basic assumption in air quality management is that there are cause and effect relationships between pollutant emissions and ambient pollution concentrations. The fundamental physical principles governing such relationships have been under investigation for many years. The investigations have led to mathematical methods for relating measured concentrations of air pollutants at a specific receptor to the rate of emission of pollutants from a variety of sources. Such mathematical methods have been called “air pollution dispersion models” or, more generally, “air quality simulation models”.

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Weber, E. (1982). Uses and Needs for Air Quality Modeling. In: Weber, E. (eds) Air Pollution. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9131-0_3

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