Prepared by Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. "Date filmed 4-22-75 NTIS." "AD-A006 807." "AFWL-TR-74-304." Microfiche.

The Air Quality Assessment Model (AQAM) is designed to serve as a generalized model that can be used to assess the impact of Air Force operations on the air environment at the air base level. This document constitutes the technical report to this effort and, as such, contains a discussion of the methodologies incorporated into the computer programs for the computation of pollutant emissions and the subsequent dispersal of these pollutants in the ambient air. Simulation of aircraft operations, temporal and spatial modeling of pollutant emissions, dispersion models based on the Gaussian plume formulation and other subjects germane to the model are discussed. The program contains a short-term dispersion model for hourly calculations and a climatological type model based on the 'Air Quality Display Model' for long-time average concentration calculations.