Environmental Meteorology

'The work will be a useful tool for researchers and administrators involved in meteorology, environmental planning, and engineering.' Water Resources Bulletin.

• Session 1: Measurement of Meteorological Parameters and Atmospheric Pollutants.- Review Paper Adequate Meteorological Measurements as a Prerequisite for the Assessment of Air Pollution.- Optical Parameters, Soot Content, and Absorption Rates of Urban Particles.- Optical and Physico-Chemical Properties of Tropospheric Aerosols in the Lee of the City of Karlsruhe.- Dispersion of Car Emissions in the Vicinity of a Highway.- Pollution Levels Near a Motorway in a Cutting.- Volatilization of Halocarbons from a Sanitary Landfill Site.- Measurements of the Contribution of a Coal-Fired Power Plant to the Overall Ground Level Concentration of Air Pollutants by Using the SF6-Tracer Technique.- Evaluation of a Model Performance with Data from a Large Power Plant.- Behaviour of Air Pollutants Under Inversion Weather Conditions.- Air Pollutant Concentrations and Meteorology in Typical Pre-Alpine Landscapes.- Session 2: Dry and Wet Deposition, and Physicochemical Transformation.- Review Paper The Deposition of Trace Substances from the Atmosphere.- A Numerical Method for Determining the Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Trace Constituents.- The Importance of Heterogeneous Reactions for the Sulfate Formation in Plumes.- Comparison of Various Precipitation Gauges and Sensors for the Determination of Wet Deposition.- Experimental Investigations on the Deposition of Trace Elements in Forest Areas.- Emission and Transport of Fugitive Dust from Sludge Deposits.- Estimation of Wet Deposition via Fog.- Deviation Range of Annual Dry and Wet Deposition Rates.- Session 3: Accidental Releases.- Wind Tunnel Modeling of Accidentally-Released Gases Heavier than Air.- Tracer Experiments to Estimate Diffusive Leakages and to Verify Dispersion Models.- SMART — An Advanced Emergency Response Tool.- TheSandoz Accident — Numerical Simulations of the Transport and the Dispersion of the Airborne Releases.- Wind Tunnel Simulation of Accidental Releases in Chemical Plants.- Session 4: Urban Climate, Atmospheric Pollution and Planning.- Review Paper Spatial and Temporal Structures of the Urban Climate — A Survey.- Energetic Feedback between Urban Climate and Diffusion of Atmospheric Pollutants.- Numerical Modelling of the Urban Climate.- Green in Urban Climate.- Analysis of an Orographically Influenced Wind System.- Synthetic Wind Climatology Evaluated by the Non-Hydrostatic Numerical Mesoscale Model KAMM.- Airborne Measurements to Investigate the Transport and the Chemistry of Polluted Air Leeside of the City of Munich.- The Determination of Mixing Heights by SODAR in an Urban Environment.- SO2 Calculations in Several Danish Cities.- Urban Redevelopment under Consideration of Climatological Aspects.- Session 5: Air Pollution Modelling.- Field Evaluation of a Fluctuating Plume Model for Odours with Sniffing Teams.- The Influence of a Building on the Dispersion of Emissions from Low Chimneys.- Modelling Dispersion of Air Pollutants Emitted by Power Stations Using Fluctuations of Wind Direction.- Performance Evaluation of Air Pollution Impact Assessment Models: Fifteen Years of Practical Experience.- Numerical Case Studies of Air Pollution in and around Urban Agglomeration Areas during Inversion Situations.- Modelling of the SO2 Dispersion over Baden-Württemberg.- Modeling of the Wind Field and the Dispersion of Reactive Pollutants.- Flow Modelling in Complex Terrain for Atmospheric Applications.- Application of Long-Range Transport Models in the Framework of Control Strategies: Example of Photochemical Air Pollution.- Using Emission Inventories to Simulate the AirPollution in Berlin (West).- Fate Simulation of Organic Substances in the Atmospheric Mixing Layer.- Dispersion Modeling Using Personal Computers.