Ebook: Stochastic Models of Air Pollutant Concentration
Author: Jan Grandell (auth.)
- Tags: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
- Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics 30
- Year: 1985
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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About fifteen years ago Henning Rodhe and I disscussed the calculation of residence times, or lifetimes, of certain air pollutants for the first time. He was interested in pollutants which were mainly removed from the atmosphere by precipitation scavenging. His idea was to base the calculation on statistical models for the variation of the precipitation i~tensity and not only on the average precipitation intensity. In order to illustrate the importance of taking the variation into account we considered a simple model - here called the Markov model - for the precipitation intensity and computed the distribution of the residence time of an aerosol particle. Our expression for the average residence time - here formula (13- was rather much used by meteorologists. Certainly we were pleased, but while our ambition had been to provide an illustration, our work was merely understood as a proposal for a realistic model. Therefore we found it natural to search for more general models. The mathematical problems involved were the origin of my interest in this field. A brief outline of the background, purpose and content of this paper is given in section 1. It is a pleasure to thank Gunnar Englund, Georg Lindgren, Henning Rodhe and Michael Stein for their substantial help in the pre paration of this paper and Iren Patricius for her assistance in typing.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Some Basic Probability....Pages 4-9
The General Model....Pages 10-16
Residence Times and Mean Concentrations....Pages 17-22
The Variance of the Concentration....Pages 23-33
The Gibbs and Slinn Approximation....Pages 34-41
Precipitation Scavenging....Pages 42-54
The Concentration Process....Pages 55-73
Inequalities for the Mean Concentration....Pages 74-74
Conditions for E(c?(t)) = 0....Pages 75-76
Approximations for “Long-Lived” Particles....Pages 77-82
Models With Dependent Sink and Source....Pages 83-101
Proof of Formula (38)....Pages 102-104
Back Matter....Pages 105-110
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Some Basic Probability....Pages 4-9
The General Model....Pages 10-16
Residence Times and Mean Concentrations....Pages 17-22
The Variance of the Concentration....Pages 23-33
The Gibbs and Slinn Approximation....Pages 34-41
Precipitation Scavenging....Pages 42-54
The Concentration Process....Pages 55-73
Inequalities for the Mean Concentration....Pages 74-74
Conditions for E(c?(t)) = 0....Pages 75-76
Approximations for “Long-Lived” Particles....Pages 77-82
Models With Dependent Sink and Source....Pages 83-101
Proof of Formula (38)....Pages 102-104
Back Matter....Pages 105-110
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