In regions as densely populated as Western Europe, prediction of the
ecological implications of pollutant transport are important in order to
minimise damage in the case of accidents, and to evaluate the possible
influence of existing or planned sources. In most cases, such
predictions depend on high-speed computation.
The present textbook presents a mathematically explicit introduction in
eight chapters: 1: An introduction to the basics of fluid dynamics of
the atmosphere and the local events and mesoscale processes. 2: The
types of PDEs describing atmospheric flows for limited area models, the
problem of appropriate boundary conditions describing the topographical
constraints, and well-posedness. 3: Thermodynamics of the atmosphere,
dry and wet, its stability, and radiation processes, budgets and the
influence of their sum. 4: Scaling and similarity laws for stable and
convective turbulent atmospheric boundary layers and the influence of
inhomogeneous terrain on the advection and the vertical dispersion, and
the method of large eddy simulation. 5: Statistical processes in
turbulent dispersion, turbulent diffusion and chemical reactions in
fluxes. 6: Theoretical modelling of diffusion and dispersion of
pollutant gases. 7: The influence of urban heat production on local
climate. 8: Atmospheric inversion layers and lapping inversion, the
stable boundary layer and nocturnal inversion.
