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IMPACT OF URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS ON MESOSCALE PRECIPITATION QUALITY
Citation:
Patrinos, A. IMPACT OF URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS ON MESOSCALE PRECIPITATION QUALITY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-85/496 (NTIS PB87209318), 1985.
Description:
Results from an 'acid rain' field study around the city of Philadelphia are presented. The study involved the sampling of wet deposition at a network of 40 sites within a distance of 60 km from the Delaware River. Emphasis was placed on event-type rain sampling of frontal and primarily nonconvective storms which are responsible for most of the Northeast's wet deposition. For most storms, meteorological conditions contributed to a predominant southeasterly transport. Since most of the area's urban and industrial emissions occur along the Delaware River, the Pennsylvania sector of the network was identified as the downwind (target) region; the New Jersey sector was the upwind (control) region. (Copyright (c) 1985 - Air Pollution Control Association.)