Meteorological dispersion modeling (DM) and land-use regression modeling (LUR) are alternative methods describing small scale variations in air pollution levels, and both have been documented to ...

Despite the growing evidence of differential toxicity, the default position by policy makers is to regard particles from different sources as equally toxic and to base current air quality policies on ...

Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer programs that solve the mathematical equations ...

March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...

The U.S., Environmental Protection Agency’s new modeling guidance makes a complicated situation more likely to occur at your plant. After reading a little background science, the impacts on your plant ...

ADELPHI, Md.-- Researchers from the Army’s corporate laboratory developed a unique turbulence model for the atmosphere that has broad applications to both civilian and military activities to include ...

The well known Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling System (ADMS) for calculation of pollutant concentrations in air is now available in three different packages: SCREEN for preliminary assessments, ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

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