摘要: The Gaussian plume model is a standard approach for studying the transport of airborne contaminants due to turbulent diffusion and advection by wind. This paper reviews assumptions underlying model, its derivation from advection-diffusion equation, key properties solution. results are then applied solving an inverse problem in which emission source rates determined given set ground-level contaminant measurements. identification can be formulated as overdetermined linear system equations that most easily solved using method least squares. Various generalizations this discussed, we illustrate our with application study zinc emissions smelting operation.