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Misure e Controlli Ambientali
Environmental Analysis and Measurements
Giorgio Passerini

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2016/2017
Credits 6
Hours 48
Period II
Language ENG

Prerequisites
None

Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
The course will give in-deep knowledge about emissions, transport, chemical fate and depletion of airborne pollutants. Above all, the students will know how to estimate emissions, how to model atmospheric physics and chemistry, and how to estimate pollutant depletions.
CAPACITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Students will be given the knowhow and the practice to realize airborne-pollutant emission estimates and emission inventories, to choose and to employ diffusive models, to choose and to employ photochemical models, and to quantify airborne-pollutant depletion mechanism.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:
Scale analysis applied on different spatial ranges and time ranges will give students an instrument to evaluate in deep all the aspects of environmental decision making. Analysis and prognosis techniques by means of scenarios are applicable in a plethora of matters. Numerical methods and sensitivity analyses represent strong overall approaches.

Program
Introduction to dynamic meteorology in Free Atmosphere. Introduction to Planetary Boundary Layer meteorology; Turbulent Transport; Taylor’s Hypothesis, Virtual Potential Temperature; Height and Structure of PBL; Evolution of Virtual Potential Temperature; Spectrum of Turbulence; The Spectral Gap; Turbulent Kinetic Energy; Cinematic Flux; Eddy Flux; Turbulent Strain and Stress; Application of Fundamental Equations to a Turbulent Flux; Reductions Approximations and Scale Analysis; Environmental Models for Air-Quality Management and Control; Model Classifications; Application of Models on Various Scenarios; Application of Models in Complex Valley-Coastal Environments

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
Oral Exam (three questions)

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
Evaluation of candidate's answers

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
score up to 10/10 for each answer

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
Sum of above scores

Recommended reading
Lecture notes, in Italian language, are available for the whole course

Courses

• Ingegneria Civile (Corso di Laurea Magistrale (DM 270/04))