Glossary of terms and concepts

This pages links to a number of simple glossary style description of technical background term and concepts of air quality management and modeling, as well as environmental impact assessment and related methods. They are organised as an extended Glossary of terms and concepts that are explained at length, with links to additional external reference material, including links to on-line models where appropriate.
Students are encouraged to:

SUGGEST additional terms to be included based on the lecture material and any open questions;
SUBMIT definitions for any of the terms, new or suggested extensions and modifications

2008/50/EC	Acid rain	Aerosols	Air, Atmosphere	Air pollutants	Europen rgulations
Atmospheric dispersion	Bag filter	Caloric values	CAMx	Carbon Monoxide	Catalytic converter
Combustion	Desulphurization	Dispersion modeling	Effects of air pollutants	Electrostatic precipitator	Emission coefficients
Eulerian models	Gas laws	Gausssian models	Heavy gas dispersion	Hydrocarbons	Lagrangian models
Lead	Nitrogen oxides	Origin of air pollution	Particulates	PBL	Photochemical oxidants
Pollution control	Plume rise	Point source modeling	Saltation	Stability classes	Sulphur oxides
Suspended particulates	Turbulence	Venturi scrubber	Units of measurement	Weibull Function	Wind Erosion

Other keywords: AOT, EMEP, CFD, IPPC, Pyrogenic, Anthropogenic, Entrainment, Deposition, Wet scavanging, Dry deposition, Wet deposition, Resuspension, Scavanging, Geostrophic, Stoke's law, Roughness, Roughness length, Monin-Obukov, Boyle-Mariotte, Gay Lussac, BAT, BATNEEC, NPV, Valuation, end-of-stack, virtual stack, plume rise, downwash, inversion, BAP, POP, VOC, Ozone, NO, NO2, N2O, NOx, Benzene, CO, Methane, GHG, CO2, CO2e, Aarhus convention, IAQ, Asthma, Asbestos, Biological Pollutants, Formaldehyde, Lead (Pb), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Pesticides, Radon (Rn), Respirable Particles, Boiler # Water heater # Cyclone furnace # Bunsen burner # External combustion engine # Industrial furnaces # Gas turbine # Internal combustion engine # Jet engine # Rotary combustion engine # Air-fuel ratio # Autoignition temperature # Deflagration # Detonation # Dust explosion # Explosion # Fire # Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion # Flue gas stacks # Gas stoichiometry # Heat of combustion # Phlogiston theory (historical) # Pyrolysis # Pyrophoric # Smouldering # Soot # Spontaneous combustion # Stoichiometry # heating value