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Catalog Data:CEE 480: Air Quality Modeling. Joint with ATM S 480. 3 Credits.
Models relating emissions to ambient concentrations.

Textbooks:none

Coordinator:Timothy Larson, Professor, Civil Engineering
269 Wilcox Hall
phone: 543-6815
email: tlarson@u.washington.edu
web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/tlarson/CEE480

Goals: This course is designed to give students an ability to use and understand relatively simple models describing the atmospheric dispersion of pollutant emissions and their near-source environmental impacts. We will use some Windows-based EPA regulatory models in the department's computer lab.

Grading:

Homework: 50%
Exams 20% (two take-home exams)
Final Project 30% (group presentation during last week of class)

	Course Announcement for Spring Quarter CEE 480 Air Quality Modeling (3) Joint with ATM S 480
	General Information Catalog Data:CEE 480: Air Quality Modeling. Joint with ATM S 480. 3 Credits. Models relating emissions to ambient concentrations. Textbooks:none Coordinator:Timothy Larson, Professor, Civil Engineering 269 Wilcox Hall phone: 543-6815 email: tlarson@u.washington.edu web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/tlarson/CEE480 Goals: This course is designed to give students an ability to use and understand relatively simple models describing the atmospheric dispersion of pollutant emissions and their near-source environmental impacts. We will use some Windows-based EPA regulatory models in the department's computer lab. Grading: Homework: 50% Exams 20% (two take-home exams) Final Project 30% (group presentation during last week of class)
	Topics to be Covered in Course
	Basic meteorology: stability, stability vs plume shape, potential temperature, wind profiles, mixing depth, meteorological pre-processor: RAMMET Gaussian Plumes: advection/diffusion equation for a point source; Plume Rise, BPIP, ISC Building Downwash, ISC prime algorithms, ISC-PRIME Highway Models: Line and Area Sources, Caline4, Street Canyons, CALROADS Plume Models and Regulatory Requirements Newer Plume Models: Aermod; Aermod inputs: surface roughness, friction velocity, Obhukov length, convective scaling velocity, on-site data, AERMET Aermod plume equations; complex terrain algorithms, AERMOD Lagrangian Puff Models: Integrated puffs and slugs, CALPUFF *Advection-Diffusion Equation:general numerical solution, special exact solutions, Calgrid,
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