An Approach to Incorporate Emissions Variability into AERMOD

EM Magazine July 2025

Authors
Tanvir Khan, PhD, Project Leader
Zach Emerson, PhD, Director, Air Quality

An innovative framework for air dispersion modeling that incorporates a probabilistic approach to determining emission rates from industrial sources, in contrast to the maximum emission rates typically used in flagship regulatory models such as AERMOD.

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