Abstract

Monitoring of ambient air quality can be carried out either measuring the various pollutants in the atmosphere or sounding the planetary boundary layer (PBL), assuming that the number and distribution of the air pollutant sources remain the same. In terms of PBL meteorology low level stability, inversion distribution, buoyancy, turbulence strength, mixing height, wind velocity and direction are some of the meteorological parameters that need to be monitored. The remote sensors, in comparison to the in situ sensors, can provide such data continuously in both space and time with a better resolution.

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