waea tt tos, WR cat aden ot ane ne ncA aA ste ee ti FA algae

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stations from over the lake strongly suggests that this
circulation was recirculating air through the city. This
may account for the very high concentrations of SOs

TABLE61. FREQUENCIES OF OCCURRENCE OF SOME WEATHER
PHENOMENA IMPORTANT TO CHiIcaGo AIR POLLUTION

Two cases of winds off Lake Michigan were also
examined. In one case, the lake was warmer than the
land; in the other the land was warmer. Observed
pollution patterns generally agree with those expected
theoretically. However, more cases must be studied
before we ean drawfirm conclusions.
Two other possible meteorological pollution phenomena, namely nocturnal inversion trapping and
morning inversion breakup fumigation may also have
occurred in one of the cases, This shows that the me-

Heat-island cir-

observed that day.

TEMPERATURE - HEIGHT

x

2

CURVE
UNSTABLE
BOUNDARY LAYER

FLOW
PIPPLS

STABLE

COOL LAKE

WARM LAND

\

=
@

Lake breeze

1-2 per month duringfall and This study
and winter (preliminary)

1 per month, September
through April
8 per month, March through
September
2 per month, October through|
February
3 per month reach Midway,
Maythrough September
,

This study
This study
This study
Murray
and Trettel,

Inc.“

teorological cause for any given pollution episode may
be highly complex and involve several different physieal processes.

More -tudy of these and other phenomena are

would be desirable, of course, but these case studies
offer hope that important information can come from
data on hand now.

We thank Mr. Ivan Brunk for information on Lake
Michigan icc conditions on 19 January 1966, and Mr.
Harry Moses for helpful discussions of the ease.
NEAR NEUTRAL
AIR

Wl

REFERENCES

STABLE

*
WARM

Land warmer*

Reference

needed. Iixtensive observations in four dimensions

TEMPERATURE ———-

UNSTABLE
BOUNDARY LAYER

eulation
Offlake winds
Lake warmer

Frequency

* Some of these mavbe lake breezes.

NEAR NEUTRAL
AIR

=

‘

Event

LAND

COOL LAKE

TEMPERATURE —=

Fic, 128—Schematic diagram of stability regimes for onshore flow from a cool lake. Top. tall stack; bottom. short
stack. (After Hewson and Olsson."”’)

1. Lowry, W. QO. The climate of cities. Set, Am. 217(2), 1523 (1967).

2. Hewson, I. 8S, and Olsson, L. E. Lake effects on air pollution dispersion. J. Air Poll. Control Assoc. 17(11), 757761 (1967).

3. Murray and Trettel, Inc. The climatology of air pollution
in northeastern Illinois. Report prepared for The Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, Murrav and Trettel, Inc., Northfield, Illinois,
February 1966.

MATHEMATICAL URBAN AIR POLLUTION MODELS*
Harry Moses
This paper provides a review of the use of mathematical models for urban air pollution problems. Discussed are the major contributions in this field beginning with the early work of Frenkiel to those of
*Summary of a paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, New York. June

26-29, 1969.

modern day operational models. To allow an assessment of work in this area, five tables are presented

including the locations of the studies, types of tracers,

sizes of the monitoring and meteorological networks,
amounts of data collected, and the mathematical
equations used.
The urban air pollution model is considered as
having four components. These are (1) the source in-

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