Simulation of Transport and Dispersion of Tracer Releases

Decisions in the management and control of atmospheric pollution are increasingly based on results of atmospheric dispersion models, which should therefore be extensively verified and validated in a comprehensive programme of model development and application. The use of perfluorocarbon (PFC) tracers has a good potential for validation of mesoscale and long range models (Begley et al., 1988), which are of special importance in the transfrontier problems of interest for the European Community.