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Tropospheric ozone (O3T) is a secondary pollutant whose formation involved primarily solar radiation, NOx and volatile organic compounds. The North of the Buenos Aires Province has great agricultural-industrial activity; therefore, O3T study is an important issue in the area. In this paper, we present the first results tend to estimate and characterize O3T in San Nicol\'as de los Arroyos, North of Buenos Aires. Due to a lack of in situ data, we analyse the observations of the instrument OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) of land remote sensing satellite AURA (GSFC/NASA). The data cover the years 2004-2013. Applying the multitaper technique (MTM), very suitable for short and noisy data series, spectral analysis is performed on a grid corresponding 1{\deg} in latitude by 1.5{\deg} in longitude, centred South of the Province of Santa Fe. The most remarkable result is the emergence of a significant peak (95%) of four months cycle. To test the validity of this signal in San Nicol\'as, daily solar radiation data (Q) were analysed in the area. The application of MTM to the daily values of Q, yields a spectral peak of 120 days. It is concluded that atmospheric opacity on the site has four months variations that modify the solar radiation at the troposphere, and consequently, the production rate of O3T. Evidence that these variations are due to teleconnection process originated in the Maritime Continent are presented., Comment: Conference paper presented at AFA (Asociaci\'on F\'isica Argentina), Bariloche, Argentina, September 2013; as a part of bigger paper to be submitted to an Earth Sciences Journal

We present the proposal of an elective for engineering courses, designed to train professionals with a solid foundation in Physics of the Atmosphere interested in environmental and sustainability issues broadly. We propose four chapters that contain a variety of topics but strongly interrelated, which correspond to three main areas: nature of the atmosphere and meteorology relevant to contaminant transport, the dispersion of air pollutants and climate in general. We conclude that it is possible train engineers who understand the basic mechanisms that led to the current atmosphere, atmospheric processes related to local and global climate, the dispersion of air pollutants and key concepts such as solar activity, climatic change and climatic variability, even in one semester. It also discusses the relationship with other subjects and proposes and illustrates a method of course approval based on the performance of work directly applicable to engineering problems., 11 pages; Conference paper: AcceptedWorld Engineering Education Forum, WEEF 2012

A substantial fraction of the particulate matter released into the atmosphere by industrial or natural processes corresponds to particles whose aerodynamic diameters are greater than 50 mm. It has been shown that, for these particles, the classical description of Gaussian plume diffusion processes, is inadequate to describe the transport and deposition. In this paper we present new results concerning the dispersion of coarse particulate matter. The simulations are done with our own code that uses the Bulirsch Stoer numerical integrator to calculate threedimensional trajectories of particles released into the environment under very general conditions. Turbulent processes are simulated by the Langevin equation and weather conditions are modeled after stable (Monin-Obukhov length L> 0) and unstable conditions (L, In spanish. 11 pages, 4 figs. Conference paper: Proyecto Integrador para la Mitigaci\'on de la Contaminaci\'on Atmosf\'erica Proyecto Integrador para la Determinaci\'on de la Calidad del Agua Tercera Reuni\'on Anual PROIMCA Primera Reuni\'on Anual PRODECA, Agosto, 2011

In order to study the dispersion and deposition of coarse anthropogenic particulate matter (PMc, aerodynamic diameters> 10 mm), a FORTRAN simulator based on the numerical integrator of Bulirsch and Stoer has been developed. It calculates trajectories of particles of several shapes released into the atmosphere under very general conditions. This first version, fully three-dimensional, models the meteorology under neutral stability conditions. The simulations of such pollutants are also important because the standard software (usually originating in the United States Environmental Protection Agency-EPA-) describe only the behavior of PM10 (diameter less than 10 mm). Bulirsch and Stoer integrator of widespread use in astrophysics, is also very fast and accurate for this type of simulations. We present 2D and 3D trajectories in physical space and discuss the final deposition in function of various parameters. PMc simulations results in the range of 50-100 mm and densities of 5.5 g cm-3 emitted from chimneys, indicate that for the purpose of deposition, the emission velocities are not as important as wind speed and the shape of the particles. For densities less than 2 g cm-3, the lack of consideration of buoyancy introduces important changes in the distribution of deposited PMc., In spanish. 7 pages, 5 figs. Conference paper: CAIP 2009 (Computaci\'on Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos), Montevideo, Uruguay