This text is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students in air quality, with a focus on modelling challenges. The key current issues are discussed within six chapters: basic principles and classification of air pollution, radiative transfer, atmospheric boundary layer, gas-phase chemistry, aerosols and multiphase processes, and chemistry transport models and numerical simulation, respectively.

The book starts with the basic principles of physics, chemistry and fluid mechanics, and is written in an understandable way for students. Through simple exercises and realistic problems (the answers are included) the state-of-the-science prevailing issues is investigated.

Audience This book is intended for students in environmental science, meteorology, in the fields of climatic change and air pollution, geophysics and engineering. It may also be a good survey book for researchers active in the field.

• Concise and comprehensive overview of air quality - Includes exercises and problem sets with detailed solutions

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Primer for the Atmospheric Composition 1.1 Atmospheric Chemical Composition 1.2 Atmospheric Vertical Structure 1.3 Timescales 2. Atmospheric Radiative Transfer 2.1 Primer for Radiative Transfer 2.2 Applications to the Earth's Atmosphere 3. Atmospheric Boundary Layer 3.1 Meteorological Scales 3.2 Atmospheric Boundary Layer 3.3 Thermal Stratification and Stability 3.4 ABL Turbulence 3.5 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics 3.6 A Few Facts for the Urban Climate 4. Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry 4.1 Primer for Atmospheric Chemistry 4.2 Stratospheric Chemistry of Ozone 4.3 Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone 4.4 Brief Introduction to Indoor Air Quality 5. Aerosols, Clouds and Rains 5.1 Aerosols andParticles 5.2 Aerosols and Clouds 5.3 Acid Rains and Scavenging 6. Toward Numerical Simulation 6.1 Reactive Dispersion Equation 6.2 Fundamentals of Numerical Analysis for Chemistry-Transport Models 6.3 Numerical Simulation of the General Dynamic Equation for Aerosols (GDE) 6.4 State-of-the-Art Modeling System 6.5 Next-Generation Models Appendix 1 Units, Constants and Basic Data References Index