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Atmospheric Pollution
Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-6001
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 6th
ECTS: 6
Teaching Units: 4
Teaching Hours: 4
Short Description:
- Structure and composition of the atmosphere. Main quantities and units, Chemical composition of the atmosphere, Major pollutants in Atmosphere
- Air Pollution Sources
- Biogeochemical cycles.
- Atmospheric Photochemistry- Exothermic and endothermic reactions in the environment - Atmospheric lifetimes of pollutants.
- Tropospheric ozone, source emission, reactivity and impacts. Photochemical smog, urban pollution.
- Stratospheric ozone, source emission, reactivity and impacts. The effect of Halogens, Ozone depletion.
- Organic volatile compounds, nitrogen and sulfur compounds in the atmosphere.
- Greenhouse effect and climate change (energy balance, greenhouse gases, climate role of greenhouse gases and aerosols, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere)
- Particulate matter in the atmosphere, characterization, sources and removal from the atmosphere, effects, Acid rain.
- Dry and wet deposition of pollutants, Dry deposition velocity.
- Air pollution and health, Air quality guidelines in EU and U.S.A.
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