Speaker
Prof.
Dino Zardi
(University of Trento)
Description
Processes controlling pollutant dispersion over complex terrain are much more complicated than over flat areas, as they are affected by atmospheric interactions with the orography at different spatial scales. In particular, thermally-driven daily-periodic winds produce circulation patterns and stability situations which are quite difficult to reproduce by numerical weather prediction models in their operational settings. The basics of these processes will be briefly reviewed, along with open questions and challenges to our capability for better understanding and representing atmospheric processes controlling the fate of pollutants over mountainous areas, as well as possible solutions.
Author
Prof.
Dino Zardi
(University of Trento)
