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This document provides an introduction to air pollution engineering and meteorology. It includes questions about criteria air pollutants, atmospheric constituents that absorb heat, layers of the atmosphere, factors affecting atmospheric motions, Coriolis force and its effects on winds, wind roses, calculating Coriolis acceleration, sea breezes and land breezes, atmospheric stability, temperature-elevation plots, and prevailing winds near cities and coastlines. The questions cover a range of fundamental concepts in air pollution and meteorology.

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This document provides an introduction to air pollution engineering and meteorology. It includes questions about criteria air pollutants, atmospheric constituents that absorb heat, layers of the atmosphere, factors affecting atmospheric motions, Coriolis force and its effects on winds, wind roses, calculating Coriolis acceleration, sea breezes and land breezes, atmospheric stability, temperature-elevation plots, and prevailing winds near cities and coastlines. The questions cover a range of fundamental concepts in air pollution and meteorology.

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EAT 301

TUTORIAL 1: INTRODUCTION TO AIR POLLUTION ENGINEERING AND


METEOROLOGY

1. Name 6 criteria air pollutants and gives their main effect to


human/property/vegetation.

2. Which atmospheric constituent absorbs most heat?


a. Carbon dioxide
b. Water vapour
c. Ozone
d. Nitrogen

3. The most unsettled layer of the atmosphere is the________________

4. What does large width and small depth of the atmosphere meant to its
motions?

5. Explain briefly factors affecting the atmospheric horizontal motions?

6. How does Coriolis force differ from gravitational and centrifugal force?
How does it affect the surface wind near the equator, at mid-latitude and
at the polar region in the idealized global circulation of the atmosphere?

7. What is the prevailing wind direction measured by a wind rose and


suggest the factor that usually governs the wind direction?

8. Draw the wind pattern based on the pressure-gradient.


9. Answer the questions related to the wind rose below:

a. Which area where high wind speed was recorded?


b. Which area where low wind speed was recorded?
c. How many times does the wind recorded at SSW?
d. How many times does the wind recorded at north?
e. How many times does the wind recorded at NE?
f. What is the highest wind speed recorded at NE?
g. What is the highest speed recorded at SSW?

10.Calculate the magnitude of Coriolis acceleration for air moving at 60


kilometers per hour at 40o latitude.
Given, 2V sin
where V Velocity of the moving body
Angular velocity of the earth or earths rate rotation
Latitude
2 radians

day

11.Sketch the onshore sea breezes in the day and offshore land breezes at
night showing the wind direction. How can any of these induce an
inversion and fumigation?

12.Explain how superadiabatic, adiabatic and subadiabatic situations affect


the stability of the atmosphere? Sketch a diagram of air parcel and lapse
rate plot to help your explanation of each condition.
13.Table below shows temperature and elevation data for a location. The
adiabatic lapse rate (ALR) is -9.8oC/km.

Elevation (m) Temperature


(oC)
2 17.28
322 15.25

i. Show the temperature-elevation plot for the above Table and determine
the stability of the atmosphere.

ii. Suggest the plume that could be observed under such atmospheric
condition and its effect to the air pollutant.

14.A city is located in a valley, which has mountains on the north and east
sides and an ocean on the southwest of the city. The city also has a power
plant near the shoreline. Based on the above information, suggest the
prevailing wind direction in the city at day time and at night time.

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