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 1205, Tues/Thursday 3-4:30 pm
Office hours: T/Th 4:30-6 pm
Homework:
| Assignment date | Due date | |
| #1 | Jan 18 | Feb 1 |
| #2 | Feb 1 | Feb 20 |
| #3 | Feb 20 | Mar 6 |
| #4 | March 6 | March 13 |
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Date |
Topics |
Chapters (Arya) |
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Jan 9, 11 |
Introduction to air pollution |
1 |
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Jan 16,18 |
Key parameters affecting urban air quality |
2 |
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Jan 23, 25 |
Heat balance, vertical stability and boundary layer characteristics |
2, Stull (Chap 1) |
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Jan 30, Feb 1 |
Turbulence and its statistics |
4, Stull (Chap 2) |
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Feb 6,8 |
Neutral surface layer and wind profile, Monon-Obukov theory |
4, 8, Stull (Chap 5) |
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Feb 13, 15 |
1st order and non-local closures, large-eddy simulation, vertical transport by diffusion |
6, 8, Stull (Chap 6) |
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Feb 20, 22 |
Guassian diffusion model |
9 |
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Feb 27, Mar 1 |
Plume rise and settling; Deposition |
10, 11 |
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Mar 6, 8 |
Dispersion modeling (group assignment due) |
11 |
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Mar 13, 15 |
Mid-term exam; Air quality modeling |
12 |
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Mar 20, 22 |
Spring recess |
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Mar 27, 39 |
Convection, wet scavenging, and pollution outflow (term paper topics due) |
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Apr 3, 5 |
Intercontinental transport of air pollution |
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Apr 10, 12 |
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Apr 17, 19 |
Regional climate change and air quality |
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Apr 24, 26 |
Term paper presentation |
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Term papers:
2007
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Topics |
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| 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
2003
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Topics |
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| 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
Grade:
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Bi-weekly homework |
25% |
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Midterm exam |
20% |
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Group project |
15% |
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Term paper |
40% |