Air Pollution Meteorology

Presented to:

Dr. Saif-ullah
Presented by:

Syed Shahzaib Ali 2013-ag-4736

Adeel Rafiq 2013-ag-4735

 Air Pollution

Any addition to air, water, soil etc that threatens

the health, survival of humans or other living

organisms
1. Natural - volcanic eruption
2. Anthropogenic - burning coal
This is what earth looks like
 The Atmosphere
Gases that envelop the Earth and are held here by gravity
regulates temperature.

Major gases:
78.08% nitrogen
20.95% oxygen
0.93% argon
0.03% carbon dioxide
Layers of the Atmosphere
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Land masses heat and cool faster than water so that

winds blow out to sea at night and inland during the
day.
In cities, brick and concrete buildings absorb heat
during the day and radiate it at night.
creating a heat island (Fig. 4), which sets up a self-
contained circulation called a haze hood from which
pollutants cannot escape.
Adeel Rafiq
 Basic Concept
Dispersion = Advection (Transport) + Dilution (Diffusion)

Source Transport Receptor

 Troposphere
(0-15 km)
Contains ~ 90% of all air
Temperature
decreases with
altitude
Air is typically unstable (vertical
mixing of air parcels) due to
convection
 Stratosphere
(15-50 km)
Contains ~ 9.5% of all air
Contains ozone layer
Absorption of
sunlight by ozone
causes warming
Site of temperature inversion
(warm air overlies cooler air)
Air is typically stable (little
 Lapse Rates
The rate at which temperature
changes with altitude is known as
the lapse rate.
An environmental lapse rate
describes the atmosphere
temperature profile.
An adiabatic lapse rate describes
the rate of temperature change with
respect to altitude for an adiabatic air
parcel.
The lapse rate of the surrounding
 Moving Air in the
Troposphere
If an air parcel (mass of air) has
a tendency to rise, the vertically
directed force of buoyancy pulls
it upward in opposition to the
downward-directed gravitational
buoyan buoyancy > gravity, air
force. cy
parcel rises. buoyancy <
Air
Parc gravity, air parcel sinks.
el
buoyancy = gravity, air
gravi
ty
parcel neither rises nor
sinks.
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Thank You