Atmospheric pollutant dispersion over complex terrain: Challenges and needs for improving air quality measurements and modeling

L Giovannini, E Ferrero, T Karl, MW Rotach, C Staquet… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pollutant dispersion processes over complex terrain are much more complicated than over
flat areas, as they are affected by atmospheric interactions with the orography at different …

Timescale methods for simplifying, understanding and modeling biophysical and water quality processes in coastal aquatic ecosystems: A review

LV Lucas, E Deleersnijder - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this article, we describe the use of diagnostic timescales as simple tools for illuminating
how aquatic ecosystems work, with a focus on coastal systems such as estuaries, lagoons …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol

NL Ng, SS Brown, AT Archibald, E Atlas… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) by the nitrate radical (NO 3)
represents one of the important interactions between anthropogenic emissions related to …

Impact of the electric vehicles on the air pollution from a highway

E Ferrero, S Alessandrini, A Balanzino - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
We have quantified the impact that an introduction of electric vehicles into the car fleet has
on air quality (regarding NO and NO 2) using a numerical dispersion model. An …

Atmospheric dispersion using a Lagrangian stochastic approach: Application to an idealized urban area under neutral and stable meteorological conditions

ML Bahlali, E Dupont, B Carissimo - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present an adaptation of the Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model of the
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) open source code Code_Saturne to simulate …

On the well-mixed condition and consistency issues in hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian stochastic models of dispersion

ML Bahlali, C Henry, B Carissimo - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2020 - Springer
We clarify issues related to the expression of Lagrangian stochastic models used for
atmospheric dispersion applications. Two aspects are addressed: the need to verify the well …

An evaluation of a Lagrangian stochastic model for the assessment of odours

E Ferrero, D Oettl - Atmospheric Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and evaluate a one-particle Lagrangian stochastic model for the
assessment of the concentration-fluctuation variance, which is often used to predict odour …

A 3D Lagrangian stochastic particle model for the concentration variance dispersion

E Ferrero, S Alessandrini, S Meech… - Bulletin of Atmospheric …, 2022 - Springer
A new scheme for the concentration variance calculation is assessed using field experiment
data. The scheme is introduced in a Lagrangian stochastic particle model. The model …

Dispersion of a passive scalar fluctuating plume in a turbulent boundary layer. Part III: Stochastic modelling

M Marro, P Salizzoni, L Soulhac, M Cassiani - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2018 - Springer
We analyze the reliability of the Lagrangian stochastic micromixing method in predicting
higher-order statistics of the passive scalar concentration induced by an elevated source (of …

Turbulence parameterizations for dispersion in sub-kilometer horizontally non-homogeneous flows

E Tomasi, L Giovannini, M Falocchi, G Antonacci… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Results from numerical simulations of tracer dispersion from a point source (an incinerator
plant) over complex terrain are presented. Different modeling chains are used and model …