airshed model

From Glossary of Meteorology
A model designed to study and predict the air quality of a given region, usually of dimensions of the order of hundreds of kilometers.

The models typically include sources of primary pollutants, the meteorology of the region being modeled, and a chemical scheme that describes the production of secondary pollutants. Airshed models of urban regions are the most common.


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