Course code:
053S1		 Course name:
Atmospheric Pollution Modelling

Academic year:

2019/2020.

Attendance requirements:

052S1

ECTS:

4

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

Environmental Chemistry: 4. year, summer semester, elective (E13S1) course

Teacher:

Lazar A. Laziæ, Ph.D.

Assistants:

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Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures (3+0+0)

Goals:

The goal of the course Atmospheric Pollution Modelling is to introduce students to computational methods used for atmospheric modelling and for forecasting the transport of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Outcome:

Upon successfully completing this course, the student has mastered new and complex techniques of data assimilation and atmospheric pollution modelling and the potential methods of forecasting pollution. Introduction to scientific work is an important outcome of this course.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and term papers.

Extracurricular activities:

The student does the home assignments, goes over his lecture notes, studies, finds information relevant to the term paper and course content (books, the Internet, etc.).

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. Lazar Lazić: Modelovanje zagađenja u atmosferi, Hemijski fakultet, 2013, skripte (available in Serbian)
  2. Zaviša Janjić: Modeliranje atmosfere I, Institut za meteorologiju Fizičkog fakulteta, 1993, skripte (available in Serbian)
  3. Lazar Lazić: Prognoza vremena, Hidrometeorološki zavod Srbije, Beograd, 2010. (available in Serbian)

Supplementary coursebooks:

  1. Reiter, Elmar R.: Atmospheric Transport Processes. Part 3: Hydrodinamic Tracers. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 1972.
  2. Schultz, Martin G.; Bey, Isabelle: Numerical modelling of long-range pollution transport. Springer. P 238. 2004.
  3. ECMWF: Global Earth-System Modelling and Monitoring. Seminar Proceedings. P 336. 2005.
  4. The Internet pages: Pojmovnik (Glossary): http://jadran.gfz.hr/pojmovnik.html

Weather forecast - Serbian:

Weather forecast - foreign:

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  • Introductory notes: The basic concepts of the atmosphere.
  • Atmospheric stability and pollution problems.
  • Main atmospheric pollutants. The diffusion equation.
  • Fundamental principles of modelling of pollution transport.
  • The Gaussian models of the local transport of pollution.
  • The methods of measurement and pollution data assimilation.
  • Basic methods of modelling: the finite-difference method.
  • Atmospheric modelling: Basic equations, model geometry.
  • Atmospheric forecasting: Methods for the calculation of weather forecast.
  • Regional and global atmospheric models.
  • Lagrangian methods.Trajectory models, inverse models.
  • Models of chemical transformations.
  • Examples of chemical forecasts. The presentation of results.
  • Accuracy and verification of models.
  • Final test.

Semester papers:

20 points

Colloquia:

20 points

Oral exam:

50 points