Air Quality

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Operational Advanced Air Pollution Modeling....Pages 5-16 Planning for Air Pollution Abatement in the Greater Tehran Area (GTA) in the Islamic Republic of Iran (JICA Project 1995-1997)....Pages 17-19 Summertime Characteristics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Relationships to Ozone Levels over the Eastern United States....Pages 21-55 Planning for Air Quality Concerns of the Future....Pages 57-74 Indoor Radon Radioactivity at the University of Brunei Darussalam....Pages 75-80 The Airshed for Ozone and Fine Particulate Pollution in the Eastern United States....Pages 81-105 Atmospheric Particulate Concentration Measured in an Urban Area Bandung....Pages 107-116 Assessing Seasonal Transport and Deposition of Agricultural Emissions in Eastern North Carolina, U.S.A.....Pages 117-141 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Environmental Emission of Mercury During Gold Mining by Amalgamation Process and its Impact on Soils of Gympie, Australia....Pages 145-156 Chemistry of Forest Fires and Regional Haze with Emphasis on Southeast Asia....Pages 157-187 Application of DARLAM to Regional Haze Modeling....Pages 189-204 Haze in Southeast Asia: Needed Local Actions for a Regional Problem....Pages 205-220 The Occurrence of Haze in Malaysia: A Case Study in an Urban Industrial Area....Pages 221-238 A Review of some Recent Radiation Fog Prediction Studies and the Results of Integrating a Simple Numerical Model to Predict Radiation Fog over Brunei....Pages 239-250 Haze Research in Brunei Darussalam During the 1998 Episode....Pages 251-264 Visibility and Incidence of Respiratory Diseases During the 1998 Haze Episode in Brunei Darussalam....Pages 265-277 Statistical Estimation of Dose-response Functions of Respiratory Diseases and Societal Costs of Haze-related Air Pollution in Brunei Darussalam....Pages 279-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Recent Advances in Air—Sea Interaction Studies Applied to Overwater Air Quality Modeling: A Review....Pages 297-316 Temperature Variation in the Urban Canopy with Anthropogenic Energy Use....Pages 317-324 Air Pollution Studies in Metromanila and Catalysis Technology Towards Clean Air Philippines....Pages 325-339 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Air Pollution Studies and Management Efforts in Nepal....Pages 341-348 Monthly Dispersion Characteristics over the South China Sea for Air Quality Modeling....Pages 349-355 Mathematical Modeling of Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 357-394 A Note on the Estimation of Eddy Diffusivity and Dissipation Length in Low Windsover a Tropical Urban Terrain....Pages 395-404 Dispersion of Flue Gases from Power Plants in Brunei Darussalam....Pages 405-418 Thermodynamic Characteristics of the Subcloud Layer Affecting Haze Dispersion Along the West Coast of Borneo....Pages 419-427 Three-dimensional Simulations of the Mean Air Transport During the 1997 Forest Fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia Using a Mesoscale Numerical Model....Pages 429-438