Table of Content

AN ABSTRACT OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENT
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 What is SO2
1.1.1 Health Effects
1.1.2 Environmental Effects
1.2 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for SO2
1.3 WHO Guidelines for SO2
1.4 Dispersion Modeling
1.4.1 AERMOD.
1.5 Geographic Information System (GIS)
1.6 Problem Statement
1.7 Research Objectives
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
3 STUDY AREA
3.1 Data Sources
3.1.1 Meteorological parameters
3.1.2 Source Parameters
3.1.3 Receptor Parameters
3.1.4 Terrain parameters
3.1.5 Population Data
3.1.6 Background Air Quality
4 METHODOLOGY
4.1 Dispersion modeling
4.1.1 Model Evaluation
4.2 Background Concentrations
4.3 Spatial Analysis
5 CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Future Research
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A
AERMOD Output for 1-Hour Avgerage Concentrations of SO2 in Lima Ohio
APPENDIX B
AERMOD Output for 3-Hour Average Concentrations of SO2 in Lima Ohio
APPENDIX C
AERMOD Output for 24-Hour Average Concentrations of SO2 in Lima Ohio
APPENDIX D
AERMOD Output for Annual Average Concentrations of SO2 in Lima Ohio