Advanced Environmental Monitoring

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Air Pollution Monitoring Systems—Past–Present–Future....Pages 3-20
Radial Plume Mapping: A US EPA Test Method for Area and Fugitive Source Emission Monitoring Using Optical Remote Sensing....Pages 21-36
MAX-DOAS Measurements of ClO, SO 2 and NO 2 in the Mid-Latitude Coastal Boundary Layer and a Power Plant Plume....Pages 37-49
Laser Based Chemical Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications....Pages 50-63
Atmospheric Monitoring With Chemical Ionisation Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (CIR-TOF-MS) and Future Developments: Hadamard Transform Mass Spectrometry....Pages 64-76
Continuous Monitoring and the Source Identification of Carbon Dioxide at Three Sites in Northeast Asia During 2004–2005....Pages 77-89
Aircraft Measurements of Long-Range Trans-Boundary Air Pollutants over Yellow Sea....Pages 90-106
Optical Remote Sensing for Characterizing the Spatial Distribution of Stack Emissions....Pages 107-118
Mass Transport of Background Asian Dust Revealed by Balloon-Borne Measurement: Dust Particles Transported during Calm Periods by Westerly from Taklamakan Desert....Pages 121-135
Identifying Atmospheric Aerosols with Polarization Lidar....Pages 136-142
A Novel Method to Quantify Fugitive Dust Emissions Using Optical Remote Sensing....Pages 143-154
Raman Lidar for Monitoring of Aerosol Pollution in the Free Troposphere....Pages 155-166
An Innovative Approach to Optical Measurement of Atmospheric Aerosols—Determination of the Size and the Complex Refractive Index of Single Aerosol Particles....Pages 167-178
Remote Sensing of Aerosols by Sunphotometer and Lidar Techniques....Pages 179-189
Retrieval of Particulate Matter from MERIS Observations....Pages 190-202
Bioaerosol Standoff Monitoring Using Intensified Range-Gated Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy....Pages 203-216
MODIS 500 × 500-m 2 Resolution Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval and Its Application for Air Quality Monitoring....Pages 217-230
Aquatic Colloids: Provenance, Characterization and Significance to Environmental Monitoring....Pages 233-247
Progress in Earthworm Ecotoxicology....Pages 248-258
Differentiating Effluent Organic Matter (EfOM) from Natural Organic Matter (NOM): Impact of EfOM on Drinking Water Sources....Pages 259-270
An Advanced Monitoring and Control System for Optimization of the Ozone-AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process) for the Treatment of Drinking Water....Pages 271-281
Monitoring of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in a Water Treatment Process by UV-Laser Induced Fluorescence....Pages 282-294
Biosensors for Environmental and Human Health....Pages 297-311
Biological Toxicity Testing of Heavy Metals and Environmental Samples Using Fluorescence-Based Oxygen Sensing and Respirometry....Pages 312-324
Omics Tools for Environmental Monitoring of Chemicals, Radiation, and Physical Stresses in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 325-337
Gene Expression Characteristics in the Japanese Medaka ( Oryzias latipes ) Liver after Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals....Pages 338-347
Optical Detection of Pathogens using Protein Chip....Pages 348-362
Expression Analysis of Sex-Specific and Endocrine-Disruptors-Responsive Genes in Japanese Medaka, Oryzias latipes , using Oligonucleotide Microarrays....Pages 363-375
Assessment of the Hazard Potential of Environmental Chemicals by Quantifying Fish Behaviour....Pages 376-389
Biomonitoring Studies Performed with European Eel Populations from the Estuaries of Minho, Lima and Douro Rivers (NW Portugal)....Pages 390-401
In Vitro Testing of Inhalable Fly Ash at the Air Liquid Interface....Pages 402-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-420