Planetary-wave behavior and arctic air pollution

An attempt was made to relate episodes of air pollution at Barrow, Alaska, containing vanadium, to the behavior of planetary waves in middle and high latitudes. A stationarity index for planetary waves is defined as the ratio between amplitudes computed from monthly mean maps and the mean amplitudes...

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Main Author: Reiter, E R
Language:unknown
Published: 2014
Subjects:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION
MONITORING
ALASKA
VANADIUM
ARCTIC REGIONS
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
METEOROLOGY
POLLUTION SOURCES
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
TROPOSPHERE
TURBULENCE
ELEMENTS
MASS TRANSFER
METALS
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION
POLAR REGIONS
POLLUTION
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
USA
VARIATIONS
Arctic
Pacific
Barrow
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5196850
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5196850
https://doi.org/10.2172/5196850
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Summary:An attempt was made to relate episodes of air pollution at Barrow, Alaska, containing vanadium, to the behavior of planetary waves in middle and high latitudes. A stationarity index for planetary waves is defined as the ratio between amplitudes computed from monthly mean maps and the mean amplitudes computed on a daily basis and averaged over the same month, irrespective of phase angle. Longitude-time sections of 500-mb height anomalies at various latitudes are related to vanadium pollution episodes at Barrow.

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