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Air quality measurements in the Fichtelgebirge and elsewhere in Europe have demonstrated that it is inappropriate to expect high air quality away from industrial areas. With the progress in mesoscale modeling, the transport of air pollutants over long distances can be studied using computer simulations. Twoand three-dimensional numerical models are used in this paper to estimate meteorological parameters and transport for situations like that presented in Fig. 1. Air pollution in the Fichtelgebirge region is represented as advection of pollutants from a neighboring industrial area into a mountainous one. Indeed, there are sources of air pollution in the Fichtelgebirge as well, such as a power plant near Arzberg and the local glass industry. However, the output of these seems negligible compared to that of numerous sources in the neighboring industrial areas, such as those around Schweinfurt and Frankfurt in the west, Nürnberg in the southwest, Ingolstadt in the south, Sokolov in Czechoslovakia to the east, and those in the German Democratic Republic to the north. All these industrial regions are approximately 100–200 km away from the Fichtelgebirge.
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Ulrich, W. (1989). Long-Range Transport and Deposition of Pollutants in the Fichtelgebirge. In: Schulze, ED., Lange, O.L., Oren, R. (eds) Forest Decline and Air Pollution. Ecological Studies, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61332-6_4
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