Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality

Proceedings of an October 1979 IIASA Workshop

Giorgio Fronza, Piero Melli

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780080299501
• eBook ISBN: 9781483153810
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality documents the proceedings of an IIASA Workshop on Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality, October 1979. The Workshop had two goals. The first was to contribute to bridging the gap between air-quality modeling and management. The second was to consider an unusual air-quality control strategy: namely, real-time emission control. The book is organized into two parts, corresponding roughly to the two goals outlined above. Part One examines the role of mathematical models in air-quality planning and includes: a presentation of a decision maker's viewpoint; illustrations of various types of models (descriptive and/or decision models) available to decision makers; assessments of the role of models in actual decision making; and two papers on the more traditional question of the significance and range of application of descriptive models, i.e., of models that represent the physics of the air-pollution phenomenon. Part Two is devoted primarily to real-time control. It includes a presentation of the IIASA case study of the Venetian lagoon; and papers on various aspects of this research; on alternative concentration predictors; and descriptions of implementations of real-time forecast and control schemes in Japan and Italy.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• Part One: Models for Air-Quality Planning
• Part Two: Models for Real-Time Prediction and Control of Air Pollution
• AUTHOR INDEX