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Estimates for the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution

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Different atmospheric, source, and surface conditions can result in substantially different ranges of atmospheric transport of air pollutants; for example, even for anthropogenic S and N, the ranges can vary from about 101 to 105 km. In this report, the emphasis is on indicating some of the reasons for the great variability of these ranges. Thus, some of the complexities of dry deposition, atmospheric chemistry, and precipitation scavenging are described, and it is demonstrated how synoptic-scale meteorologic conditions can control both dry and wet deposition. On the other hand, it is suggested that the mean, tropospheric-residence time of particulate S and N from fossil-fuel combustion in temperate latitudes is probably about a week, but the amount of this material remaining airborne after a week can be large, since the amount is expected to have a log-normal distribution over an ensemble of realizations. Applications of the results to the U.S./Canadian acid-rain issue, to episodic-deposition events, and to global-scale atmospheric pollution are indicated.

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Slinn, W.G.N. (1982). Estimates for the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution. In: Martin, H.C. (eds) Long-Range Transport of Airborne Pollutants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7966-6_4

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