Mathematical models for the variation of air-pollutant concentrations
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 14 (2) , 240-256
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1426519
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study simple mathematical models for the variation of the concentration of atmospheric pollutants. The particles are assumed to be emitted into the atmosphere with constant intensity and removed from the atmosphere with an intensity proportional to the precipitation intensity. The precipitation intensity is assumed to be a stationary stochastic process with no spatial variation. The mean, variance and covariance function of the concentration are calculated for some precipitation models. Under certain general assumptions it is shown that the concentration of ‘long-lived' particles is approximately described by an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Finally, the different models are compared by means of Swedish precipitation data.Keywords
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