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RECORD NUMBER: 30 OF 1409

Main Title Aerosol Formation in Urban Plumes.
Author Whitby, Kenneth T. ;
CORP Author Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis.;Environmental Sciences Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC.
Year Published 1980
Report Number EPA-R-803851; EPA-600/J-80-358;
Stock Number PB82-132580
Additional Subjects Air pollution ; Aerosols ; Urban areas ; Plumes ; Electric power plants ; Ozone ; Industrial wastes ; Combustion products ; Reprints ; Point sources
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NTIS  PB82-132580 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
One of the most important questions of the day is exactly how to measure the contribution of identifiable sources to the increasing haze that now covers a good part of the eastern United States in summer. This concern has resulted in a number of large studies of point sources, such as power plants. However, the multitude of small sources in every urban area also combine to form an urban plume that not only contributes to the pollution in the downwind areas immediately under it, but also to the general haze after the plume has lost its identity. Furthermore, the author has only a sketchy idea of what such plumes contribute to the general haze on the days after they have lost their identity. Although it is well known that secondary aerosol mass and O3 are formed in the urban plume, quantitative relationships between primary precursors and secondary products are scarce.