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In this paper we illustrate a forecast method of atmospheric pollution critical events caused by particulate matter (specifically PM10) based upon the application of Bayesian networks. These Bayesian networks model the temporal series of the pollutant during the day and the influence that meteorological parameters have upon them. Each network has received some evidences (coming from historical ...

Publically accessible pollution databases, such as the Australian National Pollutant Inventory, contain information on chemical emissions released by industrial facility and diffuse sources. They are meant to enable public scrutiny of industrial activity, which in turn, is meant to lead to industries reducing their pollution. In Australia, however, concerns have been consistently raised that th...

Using real options, we analyze the timing of implementing emission limits for a decaying pollutant when random environmental effects affect its stock. Two types of irreversibility are present: the first type results from long-term environmental damage, and the second from sunk costs in pollution abatement. We assume that social damage from pollution is a power function of the stock of pollutant...

Based only on current pollutant measured concentrations and atmospheric parameters the paper presents a novel procedure able to predict pollutant emission concentrations and to estimate the risk of pollution. Instead of deterministic or probabilistic methods, cumbersome regression analysis or physical models, a minimax decision procedure based on support vector machine in a minimax approach imp...

In this study, a three-dimensional numerical simulation of the wind flow and pollutant transport in street canyons is carried out by a new specific solver, which is developed and coupled into an open source CFD tool box, the OpenFOAM package. The new model has been applied to study the effect of roof shapes and building heights on the flow patterns and pollutant transports in the street canyons...

water quality prediction is a valuable tool for pollutant control in aquatic environments. a river system is selected and one-dimensional flow is assumed for the simulation of pollutant transport in this paper. advective and diffusive terms of transport equation are considered separately. different functions of advective transport are proposed and applied for a specified velocity on the discret...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To determine whether the reproducibility of left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) area measurement is greater with three-dimensional echocardiographic (3D-echo) planimetry than with conventional 2D-echo. To determine the LVOT circularity index by means of 3D-echo. To determine the usefulness of measuring the LVOT area by 3D-echo for quantifying the severity of valvul...