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Meteorology and air quality winter field study in the AOSERP study area March 1976

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dc.contributor.authorFanaki, F.
dc.coverage.spatialCanada, Alberta, Fort McMurray
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-02T19:18:10Z
dc.date.available2025-05-02T19:18:10Z
dc.date.issued1978
dc.descriptionIn March 1976, the first in a series of intensive field studies was carried out in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program study area in northeastern Alberta to examine the fine structure of the atmosphere and dispersion characteristics under winter conditions. The study comprised several co-ordinated sets of measurements over a two week period. These included: minisonde flights, tethersonde vertical profiles, acoustic sounder and delta-T sonde profiles, correlation spectrometer and ground level sulphur dioxide measurements, plume rise photography and background air and precipitation chemistry. Plume dispersion measurements made by aircraft were co-ordinated with the study and are reported in a separate publication. All measurements, except those for background air chemistry, were made within 20 km of Mildred Lake taking in the present oil sands processing facility of Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. and the future production site of Syncrude Canada Ltd. The study was successful in identifying unique features of the winter environment of the area such as diurnal formation and breakup of inversion layers, the effects of the river valley on circulation patterns, plume characteristics, pollutant deposition patterns in the snowpack and background levels of gases and particulates.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3JH3D79K
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsThis material is provided under educational reproduction permissions included in Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development's Copyright and Disclosure Statement, see terms at http://www.environment.alberta.ca/copyright.html. This Statement requires the following identification: \"The source of the materials is Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development http://www.environment.gov.ab.ca/. The use of these materials by the end user is done without any affiliation with or endorsement by the Government of Alberta. Reliance upon the end user's use of these materials is at the risk of the end user.
dc.subjectOil Sands
dc.subjectAOSERP
dc.subjectAOSERP ME 1.5.1
dc.subjectChemistry
dc.subjectOil sands
dc.subjectTar Sands
dc.subjectTar sands
dc.subjectSO2
dc.subjectAir Quality
dc.subjectPrecipitation
dc.subjectPlume
dc.subjectAlberta
dc.titleMeteorology and air quality winter field study in the AOSERP study area March 1976
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_93fc
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