Urban Aerosols and Their Impacts: Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center Tragedy (ACS Symposium Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0841239169 ISBN 13: 9780841239166

Publisher: American Chemical Society, 2005

Synopsis

Urban aerosols have been identified as important species of concern due to their potential health and environmental impacts. This symposium series book will describe the basic chemistry and physics determining the impacts of aerosol species and will highlight the research results from the measurements that were taken following the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11/01. The WTC tragedy led to the release of millions of pounds of debris aside from the structural steel, part of which was widely dissipated as aerosols and particulates in the debris cloud over lower Manhattan. Additionally, continuing fires under the debris led to the release of fine combustion related aerosols for a considerable time period in this urban environment. Held during the week of the second anniversary of the WTC tragedy in NYC, the symposium book will describe various aspects of the event, aerosol and gas exposures, and the related impacts of these aerosols. The book contributions will highlight efforts work from atmospheric chemists, meteorologists, health workers, and biologists for a timely compilation of what is known and not known about the composition and transport of tropospheric aerosols in urban environs, particularly those from the WTC collapse. Particular interest is in the acute and chronic environmental effects of these aerosols as they impact human health. Chapters included in the book will also address aerosol lifetimes, aerosol transport and removal processes, acute and chronic health effects to fine aerosol and particulate exposures, and the environmental impacts of aerosols.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy A. Marley is at both at Argonne National Laboratory.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0841239169
• ISBN 13: 9780841239166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Gaffney Jeffrey S., Marley Nancy A.