Development And Application Of A Long- Term Atmospheric Dispersion Model For Environmental Impact Assessment Purposes

The computer code AMETISTA has been developed for evaluating the long- term air pollution caused by emissions from more co-located sources. The aim is to have an updated and flexible tool for estimating air concentration levels caused by actual or hypothetical routine emissions, and for comparing th...

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Published in:WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 1994-01, Vol.3
Main Authors: Desiato, F, Inghilesi, R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Air quality
Air quality standards
Atmospheric diffusion
Atmospheric models
Emissions
Environmental assessment
Environmental impact
Environmental impact assessment
Outdoor air quality
Pollution dispersion
Pollution sources
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Summary:The computer code AMETISTA has been developed for evaluating the long- term air pollution caused by emissions from more co-located sources. The aim is to have an updated and flexible tool for estimating air concentration levels caused by actual or hypothetical routine emissions, and for comparing them with the air quality standards prescribed for different sampling times and reference periods. AMETISTA is applied in the framework of the ANPA support activity to the Commission of Environmental Impact Assessment of the Italian Minister of the Environment. The code is divided into a Meteorological Preprocessor, an Atmospheric Diffusion module mostly based on the HPDM model (Hanna and Chang [1]), and a Statistical Postpr
ISSN:1746-448X
1743-3541
DOI:10.2495/AIR940111