Modelling atmospheric transfers of pollutants

The quality of the air we breathe every day is essential to a healthy lifestyle. This notion of air quality, and the associated phenomenon of atmospheric pollution, has been studied for a very long time. As early as the 4th and 5th centuries BC, Hippocrates stressed in his treatise on "Airs, Waters and Places" that anyone wishing to study medicine in depth must examine "which winds are hot and cold, especially those common to all countries, then those peculiar to each locality". In this way, Hippocrates set out to show that diseases, which seem to bear no resemblance to one another, have one and the same vector: the air we breathe.