Air Quality

This volume, "Air Quality", contains many original findings on biomasss fires, transboundary pollution and associated haze and their impacts on health, biodiversity and economy and thus is expected to be a source book for research in South East Asia. Many of the results presented in this volume pertain to this region and are thus available under one ' roof.' Some papers could be discussed in graduate level classes dealing with Air Pollution, Air Quality, Cloud Physics and Biophysics. The scientific community will find this book a useful addition to their personal and institutional libraries.

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Operational Advanced Air Pollution Modeling.- Planning for Air Pollution Abatement in the Greater Tehran Area (GTA) in the Islamic Republic of Iran (JICA Project 1995-1997).- Summertime Characteristics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Relationships to Ozone Levels over the Eastern United States.- Planning for Air Quality Concerns of the Future.- Indoor Radon Radioactivity at the University of Brunei Darussalam.- The Airshed for Ozone and Fine Particulate Pollution in the Eastern United States.- Atmospheric Particulate Concentration Measured in an Urban Area Bandung.- Assessing Seasonal Transport and Deposition of Agricultural Emissions in Eastern North Carolina, U.S.A..- Environmental Emission of Mercury During Gold Mining by Amalgamation Process and its Impact on Soils of Gympie, Australia.- Chemistry of Forest Fires and Regional Haze with Emphasis on Southeast Asia.- Application of DARLAM to Regional Haze Modeling.- Haze in Southeast Asia: Needed Local Actions for a Regional Problem.- The Occurrence of Haze in Malaysia: A Case Study in an Urban Industrial Area.- A Review of some Recent Radiation Fog Prediction Studies and the Results of Integrating a Simple Numerical Model to Predict Radiation Fog over Brunei.- Haze Research in Brunei Darussalam During the 1998 Episode.- Visibility and Incidence of Respiratory Diseases During the 1998 Haze Episode in Brunei Darussalam.- Statistical Estimation of Dose-response Functions of Respiratory Diseases and Societal Costs of Haze-related Air Pollution in Brunei Darussalam.- Recent Advances in Air-Sea Interaction Studies Applied to Overwater Air Quality Modeling: A Review.- Temperature Variation in the Urban Canopy with Anthropogenic Energy Use.- Air Pollution Studies in Metromanila and Catalysis Technology Towards Clean AirPhilippines.- Air Pollution Studies and Management Efforts in Nepal.- Monthly Dispersion Characteristics over the South China Sea for Air Quality Modeling.- Mathematical Modeling of Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.- A Note on the Estimation of Eddy Diffusivity and Dissipation Length in Low Winds over a Tropical Urban Terrain.- Dispersion of Flue Gases from Power Plants in Brunei Darussalam.- Thermodynamic Characteristics of the Subcloud Layer Affecting Haze Dispersion Along the West Coast of Borneo.- Three-dimensional Simulations of the Mean Air Transport During the 1997 Forest Fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Using a Mesoscale Numerical Model.