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Gaseous deposition from the atmosphere is calculated separately within the atmosphere model, hence fa = 0. With f = He the equation reduces to ... 

The ionic atmosphere model leads to the extended Debye-Hiickel equation, relating activity coefficients to ionic strength ... 

Application of Fade Approximants to the Atmospheric Model Equation. We now describe the use of Fade techniques to solve the diffusion equation with chemical reactions. The equation in question is referred... 

Also, as in the solution of the chemical rate equations, a linearization error of order 0(AC) appears in the approximate solution. Thus, the same precautions that were taken to preserve accuracy in solving the ordinary chemical rate equations are required in the solution of the atmospheric model equation. 

By the 1940s, upper-level measurements of pressure, temperature, wind and humidity clarified more about the vertical properties of the atmosphere. In the 1950s, radar became important for detecting precipitation over a remote area. Also in the 1950s, with the invention of the computer, weather forecasting became not only quicker but also more reliable, because the computers could solve the mathematical equations of the atmospheric models much faster. In 1960, the first meteorological satellite was launched to provide 24-hour monitoring of weather events worldwide. 

In 1923, P. Debye and E. Hiickel used tbe ionic atmosphere model, described in Section lOA-3, to derive an equation that permits the calculation of activity coefficients of ions from their charge and their average size. This equation, which has become known as the Debye-Hiickel equation, takes the form... 

As part of a long-term study of pesticide residue dynamics in the atmosphere, we gathered and analyzed environmental samples from two situations and then compared the experimental data with results predicted by equations or models which fit the situations. 

Converting the absorption lines into abundances requires knowledge of line positions of neutral and ionized atoms, as well as their transition probabilities and lifetimes of the excited atomic states. In addition, a model of the solar atmosphere is needed. In the past years, atomic properties have seen many experimental updates, especially for the rare earth elements (see below). Older solar atmospheric models used local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) to describe the population of the quantum states of neutral and ionized atoms and molecules according to the Boltzmann and Saha equations. However, the ionization and excitation temperatures describing the state of the gas in a photospheric layer may not be identical as required for LTE. Models that include the deviations from LTE (=non-LTE) are used more frequently, and deviations from LTE are modeled by including treatments for radiative and collision processes (see, e.g., [27,28]). 

Middle atmosphere models calculate the spatial and temporal distribution of the net heating rate Q and the temperature not only as a function of altitude but also as a function of latitude, and even of longitude (local time). Such studies consider the multidimensional transport of heat and the solution of a thermodynamic equation like the one shown in Equation (3.10). The effect of waves should also be considered. Gravity wave dissipation, for example, may play an important role in the mesospheric heat budget. In the multidimensional models, the radiative scheme is often simplified and parameterized the most simple approach is to assume the cool-to-space approximation , in which it is assumed that exchange of heat between layers can be neglected in comparison to propagation out to space. 

The advantage of the deposition velocity representation is that all the complexities of the dry deposition process are bundled in a single parameter, vd. The disadvantage is that, because vd contains a variety of physical and chemical processes, it may be difficult to specify properly. The flux F is assumed to be constant up to the reference height at which C is specified. Equation (19.1) can be readily adapted in atmospheric models to account for dry deposition and is usually incorporated as a surface boundary condition to the atmospheric diffusion equation. 

Equation (25.85), the basis of every atmospheric model, is a set of time-dependent, nonlinear, coupled partial differential equations. Several methods have been proposed for their solution including global finite differences, operator splitting, finite element methods, spectral methods, and the method of lines (Oran and Boris 1987). Operator splitting, also called the fractional step method or timestep splitting, allows significant flexibility and is used in most atmospheric chemical transport models. 

Similar global implicit formalisms can be developed to treat any form of partial differential equations in an atmospheric model. Accuracy of the solutions can be tested by increasing the temporal and spatial resolution (decreasing Ax, Ay, Az, and Ar) and repeating the calculation. However, because the full problem is solved as a whole, implicit formalisms require solution of very large systems, are slow, and require huge computational resources. Even if finite difference methods are easy to apply, they are rarely used for solution of the full (25.85) in atmospheric chemical transport models. 

Atmospheric models for research and forecasting of weather, climate, and air quality are all based on numerical integration of the basic equations governing atmospheric behavior. These equations are the gas law, the equation of continuity (mass), the first law of thermodynamics (heat), the conservation equations for momentum (Navier-Stokes equations), and usually equations expressing the conservation of moisture and air pollutants. At one extreme, atmospheric models deal with the world s climate and climate change at the other extreme, they may account for the behavior of local flows at coasts, in mountain-valley areas, or even deal with individual clouds. This all depends on the selected horizontal scale and the available computing resources ... 

Finally, the atmospheric model equations can also be applied on the much smaller horizontal scale of the order of 1 to 10 km. In such cases, the horizontal resolution is only 100 m or less, which means that most of the turbulent fluctuations by convection are resolved by the model. This type of modeling is nowadays known as large-eddy simulation (LES). This has become a powerful and popular tool in the last decade to study turbulence in clear and cloudy boundary layers under well-defined conditions. 

Equations (7) through (12) constitute a mathematical model of the atmosphere. If frictional terms Fx, F, F in Eqs. (9), (10), and (11) and heating rate Q in Eq. (8) are expressed by functions of the velocity components, u,v,w, pressme p, density p, and temperature T, the atmospheric model becomes complete together with proper boimdary conditions, which must be specified. Because Eq. (7) does not contain a time-dependent term, one of the... 

Isotope concentration While deuterium model reactions are often conducted with pure deuterium oxide as the isotope source, tritium oxide is rarely used at anything close to nuclidic purity (note that tritiated water at 50 Ci/mL, the highest specific activity normally available commercially, has a tritium/hydrogen ratio of only about 1.6/98.4). Therefore, the concentration of tritium in HHO is usually much lower than that of deuterium in HjO, and this difference will be important if the source concentration is a factor in the rate equation. Analogously, model exchange reactions with deuterium gas are often done at one atmosphere of pressure, whereas in most cases tritium gas is used at lower pressures. This can result in substantially slower tritium exchange rates. 

In the direct comparison approach, an atmospheric model is assumed, and the radiative transfer equation is used to calculate a spectrum, which is then compared with the measurements along the lines discussed in Chapters 4 and 6. The parameters of the model are varied and calculations are repeated until the theoretical spectrum agrees with the measured spectrum to within prescribed limits. This approach requires an independent knowledge of the temperature as a function of pressure in the atmosphere, which may be obtained either from another portion of the spectmm or from auxiliary measurements. A knowledge of the absorption coefficients for the gases that are optically active in the portion of the spectrum being analyzed is also necessary. The coefficients can be obtained from a combination of theory and laboratory measurements, as discussed in Chapter 3. 

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