Environmental Transport and Fate

Lecture slides

• Preliminaries -- Definitions -- Mass Balance
• Diffusion Equation
• Diffusion: variations -- with source and decay
• Diffusion: up to 3D -- with advection
• Shear dispersion -- Turbulent dispersion
• Turbulent jet -- Mixing in stratified fluids
• Rivers and streams -- Dissolved oxygen in rivers
• Lake dynamics -- Water quality in lakes
• Wetlands -- Estuaries
• Intro to Air Pollution -- Smokestack plumes
• Smog over Los Angeles
• Weather dynamics -- Acid precipitation
• Chernobyl accident -- Fukushima accident
• Ozone holes - Climate dynamics - Climate change

© 2012 Benoit Cushman-Roisin