Can I read Air Quality Management on EtoBox?

Air Quality Management by Suresh Nesaratnam is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Air Quality Management about?

Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents 5 Section 1: Air basics 7 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 Clean air – a basic human need 9 1.3 What is air pollution? 12 1.4 Air quality 13 1.5 The human respiratory system 16 Interception 18 Impaction 18 Sedimentation and diffusion 19 1.6 Summary 20 Section 2: Meteorology and air pollutants 21 2.1 Introduction 21 Lower layers 22 Upper layers 23 2.2 Physical characteristics of the atmosphere 24 2.3 Dry adiabatic lapse rate theory 26 2.4 Atmospheric stability 30 2.4.1 Neutral conditions 31 2.4.2 The superadiabatic case 32 2.4.3 Inversion – types 35 2.4.4 Inversion – effects 39 2.4.5 The directional influence of winds 43 2.4.6 Identifying atmospheric stability 45 2.4.7 The atmospheric boundary layer 50 2.4.8 Calculating wind speed 55 2.4.9 Estimating depth 58 2.5 The main air pollutants 61 2.5.1 Sulfur 62 2.5.2 Nitrogen compounds 63 2.5.3 Carbon compounds 65 2.5.4 Atmospheric aerosol 68 2.5.5 Summary of pollutants 71 2.6 Effects of air pollutants 72 2.6.1 Human health effects 78 2.6.2 Effects on vegetation 79 2.6.3 Effects on animals 85 2.6.4 Effects on materials 85 2.7 Acid deposition 89 Causes of acidity 90 2.8 Climate change 92 2.8.1 Greenho

Author

Suresh Nesaratnam

Language

EN