We have developed a pollutant dispersion simulation program applicable in environmental engineering education.
From a regulatory standpoint, guidelines, standards, and emissions limits are developed for single pollutants, under the notion that a given pollutant, although present in mixtures, acts individually to affect health and the environment (Nadadur et al. 2007) and serves as a proxy for a more complex exposure.
As a first step, single-pollutant models were developed, followed by multi-pollutant models, which included those pollutants that showed associations.
■ GloFish fluorescent fish are available as pets in the US, but were originally developed to detect pollutants: a non-fluorescing fish indicates safe water, a fluorescing one contamination.
An inexact two-stage dynamic programming (ITSDP) model has been developed for planning pollutants emission management and electricity and heat supply systems under uncertainties.
IAMs have been at the core of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs, van Vuuren et al. 2011), a set of socio-economic and emission scenarios, including socio-economic change, technological change, energy and land use, and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, developed for the climate modeling community in support of the IPCC AR5.
These are just two of the questions that a team of American and Canadian scientists hope will be answered using a model they have developed to track pollutants across North America.
This paper develops multiple-pollutant marginal abatement cost curve analysis to identify an optimal set of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures considering the trade-offs and synergies with other environmental pollutants.
Land use regression models were developed for each pollutant to predict average outdoor air pollution levels for the entire pregnancy at each residential address.
We developed models with individual pollutants and with all three pollutants together (i.e., multi-pollutant models).
