What is to capture gas molecules out of the air.
(Can capture HCHO gas)
100
maximum concentration for protecting public health and welfare.
What is the Air Quality Standard.
100
A layer in the atmosphere where temperature increases with height.
What is a temperature inversion.
100
The depth of the mixed layer
What is the mixing height.
100
Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District was founded.
What is 1947.
200
Long term sources of formaldehyde in the home. This does not include?
What is furniture, wood, and insulation.
NOT carpets.
200
What is an Air Quality Criterion?
What is a term linking exposure dose to degree of harm. Gives description of air quality: "good" "unhealthy"
200
In Southern California, a high pressure area to the northeast pushes air toward the ocean and causes air aloft to sink, but not all the way to the ground. This forms the ___ inversion.
What is the regional subsidence inversion.
200
What is the best type of plume. Describe it.
What is lofting. (Stable Environment)
when the stack is sufficiently high and the emission is above an inversion layer.
200
States set up air air quality standards based on the AQC.
-states that failed could be sued by the feds.
What is the Air Quality Act of 1967.
300
Carboxy hemoglobin does what?
What is occupies space on RBC that is normally used to carry oxygen to body tissues.
300
a numerical scale vs. air quality criteria, normalized for different pollutants.
What is an air quality index.
300
After a clear, windless night, a(n) ___ inversion may form due to the cooling of the ground. This can concentrate carbon monoxide from morning traffic, making it hazardous for morning joggers.
What is the radiation inversion.
300
What is the worst type of plume. Describe it.
What is fumigation plume. when the emission from the smoke stack is under an inversion layer, the movement of the pollutants in the upward direction is restricted, fumigates the mixed layer.
300
No federal air pollution regulations; delegated to states and cities; funded Public Health Service Studies.
What is the 1955 U.S. Air Pollution Control Act.
400
Why are carpets and drapes not considered long-term sources of indoor formaldehyde?
The large exposed surface area of carpets and drapes allow quick outgassing of formaldehyde.
400
London Smog Episodes kill thousands. As a result of this Act, power plants were relocated to rural areas, and smoke emissions regulated.
What is Clean Air Act of 1956
400
Cool Air Flows underneath warm air..
Ie: Marine layer.
What is the advection inversion.
400
Explain the Seasonal Variation for Winter.
Because temp is lower, less plants, less sun, MORE combustion, causes MORE CO.
400
New NAAQS for ozone particulate matter. (which was?)
What is Clean Air Act Revision of 1997..(8hr average/2.5 standard for PM)
500
In a "very smoky" room, it was said that in lecture that a non-smoker can inhale the equivalent of one cig's worth of smoke in about?
What is 60 minutes.
500
What makes up diesel smoke?
What is soot particles+toxic carcinogenic compounds
-long res times
500
Formula for calculating the value of temp inversions.
What is - (-T2-T1)/(z2-z1)
500
Explain the Seasonal Variation for Summer.
What is very high amounts of OZONE which means less CO.