SUMMARY OF THE EIGHTH JOINT CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF AIR-POLLUTION METEOROLOGY

The Eighth Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorolo gy with the Air and Waste Management Association was held in conjuncti on with the AMS 74th Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, on 23-28 January 1994. Sessions at the meeting covered a broad range of topics including the dispersion environment, meteorology in emissions determi nation, long-range and mesoscale pollutant transport and fate, meteoro logy and photochemistry, advanced dispersion models and modeling syste ms, model evaluation, complex flows affecting dispersion neat structur es, and coastal and complex terrain issues. Papers followed some recur rent themes but many reported applications of new technology that prov ide new opportunities to see atmospheric characteristics and complexit ies for the first time. Innovative techniques were described in data a nalysis and presentation and modeling.