As high-density monitoring networks observing pollutant concentrations are costly to establish and maintain, researchers often employ various models to estimate concentrations of air pollutants. The AMS/EPA Regulatory Model (AERMOD) is a fairly recent and promising model for estimating concentrations of air pollutants, but the effectiveness of this model at different time scales remains to be v...

AERMOD was used to model the air dispersion of point and major line emissions of PM2.5 in Halifax and Pictou, NOX in Halifax and SO2 in Halifax, Sydney and Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada. Emission inventory data for 2004 were used in simulations within four, 50 km x 50 km, domains over annual, monthly and 1–hour averaging periods. Annual averaged surface concentration maps are reported...

Air quality model (AQM) is an essential tool for management of air quality in near field region of an industrial complex. Model validation study using site specific input data can boost the consistency on accuracy of model’s performance for air quality management. This study describes the validation of CALPUFF and AERMOD for assessment of NOx concentrations in near field region of a steel indus...

AERMOD is an advanced plume model that incorporates updated treatments of the boundary layer theory, understanding of turbulence and dispersion, and includes handling of terrain 1 On assignment to the National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. interactions. This paper includes an overview of AERM:OD's features relative to ISCST3, a dispersion model that is wide...

The only documentation on the building downwash algorithm in AERMOD (American Meteorological Society/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model), referred to as PRIME (Plume Rise Model Enhancements), is found in the 2000 A&WMA journal article by Schulman, Strimaitis and Scire. Recent field and wind tunnel studies have shown that AERMOD can overpredict concentrations by factors of 2 t...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the respiratory effects of short-term exposures to petroleum refinery emissions in young children. This study is an extension of an ecologic study that found an increased rate of hospitalizations for respiratory conditions among children living near petroleum refineries in Montreal (Canada). METHODS We used a time-stratified case-crossover design to assess the...

The petrochemical industry PT Kaltim Methanol Industri Bontang City, uses auxiliary boilers with natural gas fuel and is connected to the stack emit pollutants into atmosphere. objectives of this study are SO2 modeling a radius 5 kilometers NO2 10 from emission source. Modeling using AERMOD software, AERMET Software, Aermap ArcGIS Software. wind rose in dominant research area southwest northeas...

nowadays, air pollution is one of the main challenges worldwide. there have been significant improvements in air quality dispersion modelling. aermod is one of these models which is based upon the gaussian model. however, aermod has some limitations in terms of data input and output. therefore improving this model as well as developing new models adopted to our country is required to be address...

Qualitatively and quantitatively, we have demonstrated that airborne polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations in the air surrounding New Bedford Harbor (NBH) are caused by its water PCB emissions. We measured airborne PCBs at 18 homes and businesses near NBH in 2015, with values ranging from 0.4 to 38 ng m-3, with a very strong Aroclor 1242/1016 signal that is most pronounced closest to th...