Climatology of air pollution is a relatively new topic that is evolving from the surge of concern about air quality that erupted in the 1950s and 1960s. It primarily deals with descriptions of meteorologic factors that are important in the occurrence of large or undesirable concentrations of atmospheric pollutants. The meteorologic/climatic features and the phenomena that they act upon, emissions pollutants, are extremely diverse and occur over a broad range of scales in space and time. Pollution sources vary from myriad small ones such as automobiles, which in cities often are treated as area or line sources, to those so large, such as power plants, that they demand detailed attention. On regional scales the ensemble of plumes from a city may have an impact on other cities down-wind, and so on to the global scale. Only the lower few kilometers of the atmosphere are of primary concern to climatologists, but the lower few kilometers are the very layer with the greatest versatility in...
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Holzworth, G.C. (1987). Air pollution climatology . In: Climatology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30749-4_7
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