Waste Management and Pollution Control

Unit 4
Introduction to Basic Meteorology
of Air Pollution

OBJECTIVES

On completing this section you should be able to:

  1. Discuss the concept of lapse rates and the effects that lapse rates have on pollution dispersion.
    2.
  2. Understand the origins and consequences of inversions.
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  3. Recognise smoke plume types and relate them to meteorological conditions.
    4.