Estimation of viable airborne microbes downwind from a point source
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 31 (5) , 700-704
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.31.5.700-704.1976
Abstract
Modification of the Pasquill atmospheric diffusion equations for estimating viable microbial airborne cell concentrations downwind form a continuous point source is presented. A graphical method is given to estimate the ground level cell concentration given (i) microbial death rate, (ii) mean wind speed, (iii) atmospheric stability class, (iv) downwind sample distance from the source, and (v) source height.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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