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Main Title Ozone Formation in Pollutant Plumes: A Reactive Plume Model with Arbitrary Crosswind Resolution.
Author Gillani, N. V. ;
CORP Author Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA/600/3-86/051;
Stock Number PB86-236973
Additional Subjects Ozone ; Air pollution ; Atmospheric models ; Sulfates ; Plumes ; Gaussian plume models
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NTIS  PB86-236973 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
A new two-layer reactive plume model is developed, in which arbitrary crosswind resolution of the emission field of each precursor is preserved, and dynamic plume-plume and plume-background interactions are explictly accomodated. The model has a hybrid formulation, having Lagrangian downwind transport and Wulerian crosswind spread. It is applied in a diagnostic mode to simulate the observed behavior of plumes of the metropolitan St. Louis area and the Labadie power plant. The RAPS emissions inventory gave detailed spatial resolution of the emission field, numerous stationary and mobile upper air wind soundings provided the basis for transport simulation, and aircraft data provided detailed crosswind profiles of pollutant concentrations across the plumes at downwind sections. Model simulations of ozone were generally good, even in crosswind detail, given an appropriate background characterization. Simulated values of the rate of SO2 oxidation were quantitatively not as satisfying.