EAS6792/CEE6792 Air Pollution Meteorology

Instructor: Professor Yuhang Wang, ES&T 3254, phone: (404) 894-3995, email: ywang@eas.gatech.edu

References: Air pollution meteorology and dispersion, by S. Pal Arya, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Atmospheric chemistry and physics, by J. H. Seinfeld and S. N. Pandis, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

An introduction to boundary layer meteorology, Roland B. Stull, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

Web: http://apollo.eas.gatech.edu/EAS6792

Class: ES&T L1175, Tues/Thursday 3-4:30 pm

Office hours: T/Th 3-4:30 pm

Homework:

Syllabus:

Date	Topics	Chapters (Arya)
	Part I: Air pollution and boundary layer
Jan 6, 8	Introduction to air pollution	1
Jan 13, 15	Key parameters affecting urban air quality	2
Jan 20, 22	Heat balance, vertical stability and boundary layer characteristics	2, Stull (Chap 1)
Jan 27, 30	Turbulence and its statistics, surface energy budget	4, Stull (Chap 2)
Feb 3, 5	Similarity theory and Monon-Obukov surface layer	4, 8, Stull (Chap 5)
Feb 10, 12	1^st order and non-local closures, large-eddy simulation, vertical transport by diffusion	6, 8, Stull (Chap 6)
Feb 17, 19	Turbulent dispersion and Gaussian plumes	9
Feb 24, 26	Plume rise and settling; Deposition	10, 11
Mar 3, 5	Dispersion and air quality modeling (group assignment due)	11
Mar 10, 12	Air quality modeling; Mid-term exam	12
Mar 17, 19	Spring recess
	Part II: Air pollution and climate change
Mar 24, 26	Regional and urban air pollution in the United States (term paper topics due)
Mar 31, Apr 2	Emission changes and meteorological impacts
Apr 7, 9	Biomass burning and its impacts
Apr 14, 16	Biogenic emission and land use changes
Apr 21, 23	Term paper presentation

Grade:

Term papers:

2007

	Topics
Sivaihm Balachandra	Impact of air pollution on the South Asian monsoon
Chandra Sherhar	Inferring CALIPSO backscattering data over Antarctica during spring
Xueyuan Deng	Convection over China -- ISCCP DX data analysis results
Bo Yao	Plume rise from free burning fires
Chun Zhao	Does uncertainty of soil NOx emission explain the bias of modeling tropospheric NO₂ columns?

2004

	Topics
Burton Gray	Tracking DMS in Antarctica
Burçak Kaynak	Diurnal vertical concentration profile of CO in an urban environment
Khara Lombardi	A Sensitivity Analysis of Fluxes Between the Atmosphere-Ocean Interface Using the Kantha – Clayson Ocean Model
Dana Lowes	Changes in Concentration of Chemical Species using Back-Trajectory Analysis: Atlanta’s Emissions Affecting its surroundings
Grant Michalski	Source Apportionment of PM2.5 With CMB8

2003

	Topics
Mohammad Arhami	Effect of Wind Speed and Direction on Atlanta PM2.5
Paola Augelo	Turbulence, Intermittency and Chaos in High-Resolution Data, Collected At The Amazon Forest
Farhan Auhtar	Ozone trends over the Fourth of July
Jaemeem Baek	The Change of Meteorological Parameters with Land Use in MM5
Rosa Chi	NONROAD Model Sensitivity to Temperature
Chris Henningan	Measurement of inorganic aerosol species – results from DICE
Carlos Hoyos	Air-Sea fluxes over the bay of Bengal during summer 1999
Monique Latalladi	The Vieques Problem
Sangil Lee	Source Apportionment of VOCs in Pensacola, FL 2003
Rick Peltier	PERCH: Implications of A Spatial Assessment of PM Variability
Benton Whilesides	Convective Roll Effects on Sea Breeze Fronts
Bo Yan	Calculation of wildfire Plume Rise
Seungju Yoon	A Heavy-Duty Vehicle Visual Classification Scheme: Heavy-Duty Vehicle Reclassification Method for Mobile Source Emissions Inventory Development

Group projects:

2004

2003