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In the first report on ‘Acid Rain’ (Watt Committee, 1984), the general processes of emission, transport, transformation and deposition of air pollution were described (see Fig. 1.1). The importance of dispersion by atmospheric turbulence was stressed since it is this dispersion which enables the plume to mix with surrounding ‘clean’ air carrying oxidants which can transform some of the major primary pollutants through a series of complex reactions into secondary pollutants whose capability for ecological damage may be radically different from that of the original primary pollutants. The dispersion may also bring an elevated plume down to ground where some of the pollutants may undergo gradual deposition as a result of sedimentation, impaction or chemical adsorption—a process called ‘dry deposition’.
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Smith, B. (1988). Production and Deposition of Airborne Pollution. In: Mellanby, K. (eds) Air Pollution, Acid Rain and the Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2735-3_1
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