Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXI

Front Matter....Pages i-lv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Atmospheric Modelling Under Urban Land Use Changes: Meteorological and Air Quality Consequences....Pages 3-8
Comparison of RAMS, RMS and MSS Modelling Systems for High Resolution Simulations in Presence of Obstacles for the MUST Field Experiment....Pages 9-14
The Role of Vegetation in Local and Urban Air Quality....Pages 15-20
Using a Coupled Meteorological and Chemical Transport Modelling Scheme to Evaluate the Impact of the Aerosol Direct Effect on Pollutant Concentration Fields in Paris....Pages 21-25
CFD Simulations of Air Pollution in Urban Micro Environments....Pages 27-31
Dispersion of Buoyant Emissions from Low Level Sources in Urban Areas....Pages 33-38
Comparison Between a Building Resolving Micro-Meteorogical Model and Measurements at SIRTA....Pages 39-44
A New Method for Buoyant Plume Rise Computation in Lagrangian Particle Models....Pages 45-50
Influence of Wall Heating in a Street Canyon on Kinetic Energy and Scalar’s Exchange: A Large-Eddy Simulation....Pages 51-55
Stable Boundary Layer Modeling for Air Quality Applications....Pages 57-61
Street Canyon Atmospheric Composition: Coupling Dynamics and Chemistry....Pages 63-67
New Methods for Improvement of the Computational Efficiency of the Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model....Pages 69-73
Development of a Building Resolving Atmospheric CFD Code Taking into Account Atmospheric Radiation in Complex Geometries....Pages 75-80
A New Approach to Building Downwash Modelling....Pages 81-85
Numerical Simulation of Indoor Air Pollution and Atmosphere Pollution for Regions Having Complex Topography....Pages 87-91
The Canadian Urban Dispersion Modeling (CUDM) System: Prototype Evaluation over Vancouver 2010....Pages 93-96
Fast Model to Compute the Concentration Covariance of Two Passive Scalars from Their Mean Concentration Field....Pages 97-101
The Impact of Anthropogenic and Biogenic Emissions on Surface Ozone Concentrations in Istanbul: A Modeling Study....Pages 103-106
An Integrated System to Forecast PM10 Concentrations in an Urban Area, Using MODIS Satellite Data....Pages 107-111
Analysis of Scalar Fluxes and Flow Within Modelled Intersection Depending on the Approach Flow Direction....Pages 113-118
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Analysis of HIRLAM NWP Model During an Air Pollution Episode in Istanbul in 2009....Pages 119-123
WRF-ARW Simulation: Urban Area Scale Forecast for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area....Pages 125-131
Dispersion of Bioaerosols from a Wastewater Plant: An Experimental – Modellistic Approach....Pages 133-136
Dispersion and Deposition of Radioactive Particulate Matter from an Explosion....Pages 137-141
Calculation of Standard Deviation of Concentration Using a Second-Order Closure Theory....Pages 143-146
Simulating Building Downwash of Heavy Metals by Using Virtual Sources: Methodology and Results....Pages 147-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Air Quality Modelling and Source Apportionment Studies for Aerosols in Switzerland....Pages 155-159
High Ozone Levels in a Rural Mountainous Area: Where Does It Come from?....Pages 161-167
Development and Evaluation of an Ammonia Bi-Directional Flux Model for Air Quality Models....Pages 169-174
Extending the Applicability of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model to Hemispheric Scales: Motivation, Challenges, and Progress....Pages 175-179
The Urban Impact on the Regional Climate of Dresden....Pages 181-185
Incremental Development of Air Quality Forecasting System with Off-Line/On-Line Capability: Coupling CMAQ to NCEP National Mesoscale Model....Pages 187-192
Measuring and Modeling Wet Deposition Fluxes in the Netherlands and Europe....Pages 193-198
Discrepancies Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Emission Inventories of Megacities: The Causes and Relevance for Modeling Concentrations and Exposure....Pages 199-204
Making High Resolution Air Quality Maps for Flanders, Belgium....Pages 205-211
Development of an Agricultural Fertilizer Modeling System for Bi-Directional Ammonia Fluxes in the CMAQ Model....Pages 213-219
Air Quality Forecasting with LOTOS-EUROS in the Context of the MACC Project....Pages 221-226
Examining the Impact of an Updated Toluene Mechanism on Air Quality in the Eastern US....Pages 227-231
Episodic High Surface Ozone in Central Japan in Warm Season: Relative Importance of Local Production and Long Range Transport....Pages 233-238
A European Chemical Weather Forecasting Portal....Pages 239-243
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Modeling the Impact of Urban Emissions in Russia on Air Quality in Northern Europe....Pages 245-249
Aerosol Load and Characteristics in Buenos Aires: Relationships with Dispersion Mechanisms and Sources in South America....Pages 251-255
A Numerical Investigation of Endosulfan Impact to the Great Lakes Ecosystem....Pages 257-261
Bulgarian Emergency Response System for Release of Hazardous Pollutants – Design and First Tests....Pages 263-268
Towards High-Resolution Environmental Modelling in the Alpine Region....Pages 269-273
Modelling the Impact of Best Available Techniques for Industrial Emissions Control in Air Quality....Pages 275-278
Changes in Sulphur and Nitrogen Deposition in Poland due to Domestic and European Emission Abatement....Pages 279-283
A Methodology for Quantifying the Contribution of Volcanic Ash to Urban Air Pollution....Pages 285-288
Impact of Saharan Dust on PM10 Daily Exceedances over Italy During 2003–2005....Pages 289-292
Intercomparison Between Two Air Pollution Simulations in Northern Italy Based on Different Emission Inventories....Pages 293-297
Sea-Salt Aerosol Forecasts Compared with Wave Height and Sea-Salt Measurements in the Open Sea....Pages 299-303
Comparison of EMEP Emissions Inventory and Limited Area Bottom-Up Inventory in the Simulation of Air Quality by Means of CHIMERE....Pages 305-308
Forecasting O 3 , PM 25 and NO 2 Hourly Spot Concentrations Using an Updatable MOS Methodology....Pages 309-314
Coupling of the CTM CHIMERE to the High Resolution LAM ALADIN for Belgium....Pages 315-319
Impact of Saharan Dust on PM10 Concentrations in the FARM model....Pages 321-325
Contribution of Aviation Emissions on the Air Pollution Levels of the Mediterranean Region with the Use of an Online Coupled, Fully Integrated Modeling System....Pages 327-332
Mixed Deterministic-Statistical Modelling of Regional Ozone Air Pollution....Pages 333-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Efficacy of Incremental Reduction of Input Uncertainties to Improve Air Quality Prediction....Pages 341-346
LOTOS-EUROS Air Quality Forecasts by Assimilation of OMI Tropospheric NO2 Columns....Pages 347-351
Integrating PM 25 Observations, Model Estimates and Satellite Signals for the Eastern United States by Projection onto Latent Structures....Pages 353-358
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Operational Chemical Weather Forecasting Models on a Regional Scale in Europe....Pages 359-365
Forecasting Urban Air Quality over Cities by Statistical Adaptation of Deterministic Chemistry Transport Model Outputs....Pages 367-371
Scale Interaction in Air Quality Simulations by Means of a Nudging Technique....Pages 373-378
US National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Expanding Coverage to Include Particulate Matter....Pages 379-384
On a Contribution of Wild-Land Fires on Atmospheric Composition in Arid Regions....Pages 385-389
An Assessment of a Real-Time Analysis and Its Impact on Dispersion Modeling....Pages 391-396
An Air Quality Forecasting Tool over Italy (ForeChem)....Pages 397-401
Comparing Air Quality Forecast and a Reanalysis: Improvements Due to Chemical Data Assimilation and Better NWP Forcing....Pages 403-406
Simulation of the Sensitivity of Rural Tropospheric Ozone Levels to BVOCs Emissions over a European Atlantic Coastal Region (Galicia, NW of Spain)....Pages 407-410
Ensemble Air Quality Forecasting: Effects of Perturbations in Meteorology and Emissions....Pages 411-415
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Multi-model Ensembles: Metrics, Indexes, Data Assimilation and All That Jazz....Pages 419-426
Diagnostic Evaluation of Complex and Simple Atmospheric Chemical Transport Models by Considering Single Source Impacts in the UK....Pages 427-431
Construction and Performance Analysis of a Limited-Size Ensemble of Atmospheric Dispersion Simulations....Pages 433-438
On the Use of Principal Component and Spectral Density Analyses to Evaluate the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model....Pages 439-445
Dynamic Model Evaluation of NO x Emissions Reductions on Ozone Concentrations in the Presence of Uncertain Emission Inventories....Pages 447-451
Influence of Meteorological Input Parameters on Urban Dispersion Modelling for Traffic Scenario Analysis....Pages 453-457
Wet Deposition: Model Development and Evaluation....Pages 459-465
Detailed Modeling of Dry Deposition over Germany....Pages 467-471
The Impact of Meteorological Uncertainties on the Prediction of PM in Urban Areas....Pages 473-477
Setting Acceptance Criteria for Air Quality Models....Pages 479-484
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
The Impact of Meteorology on Air Quality Simulations over the Po Valley in Northern Italy....Pages 485-490
Modeling Air Quality over Italy with MINNI Atmospheric Modeling System: From Regional to Local Scale....Pages 491-498
Evaluation of Vertical Profiles in Mesoscale Meteorological Models Based on Observations for the COST728 Study of Winter 2003 PM Episodes in Europe....Pages 499-503
Performance Summary of the 2006 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Simulation for the AQMEII Project: North American Application....Pages 505-511
Comparative Evaluation of Model Simulations of Regional Ozone and Particulate Matters for Two Distinct Summers over Eastern North America....Pages 513-518
Dynamic Evaluation of Long-Term Air Quality Model Simulations over the Northeastern U.S.....Pages 519-524
Aerosol Analysis and Forecast in the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System: Evaluation by Means of Case Studies....Pages 525-528
Objective Discrimination and Pooling Models in the Ensemble....Pages 529-532
Implementation and Evaluation of a Comprehensive Emission Model for Europe....Pages 533-538
A Wintertime Local-to-Regional Scale Test Case Study of SILAM Model....Pages 539-542
Air Pollution Dispersion Modeling Around Thermal Power Plant Šoštanj in Complex Terrain: Model Validation and Regulatory Planning....Pages 543-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Will Pollution Reduce Precipitation?....Pages 549-557
Aerosol Simulation with Fully Coupled “Online” Meteorology-Chemistry Model WRF/Chem over Europe: Preliminary Results....Pages 559-563
Human Health Impacts of PM2.5 and NO x Transport Air Pollution in Belgium....Pages 565-570
Effects of Airborne Particles on Cloud Formation and Precipitation: A Modeling Study....Pages 571-578
Simulation of the Indirect Radiative Forcing of Climate Due to Aerosols by the Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ over the Eastern United States....Pages 579-583
Assessing the Anthropogenic Fugitive Dust Emission Inventory and Temporal Allocation Using an Updated Speciation of Particulate Matter....Pages 585-589
Improvements to Wintertime Particulate-Matter Forecasting With GEM-MACH15....Pages 591-597
Improved CTM Boundary Conditions Using DREAM Desert Dust Forecasts: A Case Study over the Po Valley....Pages 599-605
Desert Dust Particle Distribution: From Global to Regional Scales....Pages 607-611
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Study of Vertical Transport of Marine Aerosol Using an Unsteady 2D Model....Pages 613-618
Comparing Monitoring-Based and Modeling-Based Approaches for Evaluating Black Carbon Contributions from a U.S. Airport....Pages 619-623
Front Matter....Pages 625-625
Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Air Pollution over Europe Using the MATCH CTM Linked to an Ensemble of Regional Climate Scenarios....Pages 627-635
Urban Impact on Air Quality in RegCM/CAMx Couple for MEGAPOLI Climate Change Study in High Resolution....Pages 637-640
Impact of Climate Change on Ozone Pollution in the Lower Fraser Valley, Canada....Pages 641-646
Impact of Global Warming on the Regional Climate Adjacent to the Great Lake Biwa....Pages 647-651
Front Matter....Pages 653-653
Advancing Exposure Science and Its Applications....Pages 655-662
An Investigation of the Impacts of Aviation Emissions on Future Air Quality and Health....Pages 663-668
Nitrogen Deposition in the UK: The Influence of Grid-Space and Time on the Exceedance of Critical Loads and Levels....Pages 669-673
Modelling of Particulate Matter: A Detailed Analysis of Sources and Abatement Strategies....Pages 675-679
Development and Evaluation of Alternative Metrics of Ambient Air Pollution Exposure for Use in Epidemiologic Studies....Pages 681-686
Sub-grid Variability and Its Impact on Air Quality Exposure Assessment....Pages 687-692
Cost-Effective Plans to Mitigate Air Quality Effects on Human Health in Northern Italy....Pages 693-697
Enhanced Aerosol Formation and Nutrient Deposition by Ship Emissions in North Sea Coastal Regions....Pages 699-703
Multi-objective Optimization of Emission Parameters for Air Pollution Models....Pages 705-709
Characterizing the Exposure of Regional-Scale Air Quality in the Northeastern United States....Pages 711-715
Development and Evaluation of Land-Use Regression Models Using Modeled Air Quality Concentrations....Pages 717-722
Pollen Dispersal and Hybridization Model for Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops....Pages 723-727
The Impact of the Urban Air Pollution on the Human Health: A Case-Study in Turin....Pages 729-732
A New Canadian Modeling Platform for Policy Emission Reduction Scenarios: Year 2006 Configuration....Pages 733-736
Front Matter....Pages 653-653
flexRISK – Flexible Tools for Assessment of Nuclear Risk in Europe....Pages 737-740
Novel Approaches for Estimating Human Exposure to Air Pollutants....Pages 741-745
Air Quality Trends in the U.S. Rocky Mountain Area....Pages 747-751
The Potential of Biofumigation in Solving Air Pollution in Developing Countries....Pages 753-759
Back Matter....Pages 761-766