
Air Pollution: XXII
WIT Press
Published on 7. July 2014
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-1-84564-782-7 (ISBN)
Description
The proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, builds upon the prestigious outcomes of the 21 preceding meetings beginning in 1993. Air pollution is one of the most challenging problems facing the international community; it is widespread and growing in importance, and has clear and known impacts on health and the environment. The human need for transport, manufactured goods and services results in impacts on the atmospheric environment from a local to global scale. The rate of development of the global economy brings new pressures and the willingness of governments to regulate air pollution is often balanced by concerns over the economic impact of such regulation. Science is the key to identifying the nature and scale of air pollution impacts and is essential in the formulation of policies for regulatory decision-making. Continuous improvements to our knowledge of the fundamental science of air pollution and its application are necessary if we are to predict, assess and mitigate the air pollution implications to local, regional, national and international systems.Topics covered include: Air Pollution Modelling; Monitoring and Measuring; Aerosols and Particles; Exposure and Health Effects; Emission Studies; Air Quality Management; Indoor Air Pollution; Case Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-782-7 (9781845647827)
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Contents Section 1: Air pollution modelling Air quality, climate change and resilience in the Porto urban area; Atmospheric recirculation on the east coast of Gran Canaria Island; Modeling the volcanic ash dispersion and deposition from El Reventador volcano eruption in Ecuador on November 3rd 2002; Multilayer perceptron and regression modelling to forecast hourly nitrogen dioxide concentrations; Developing a methodology to predict PM10 urban concentrations using GLM Section 2: Monitoring and measuring Diurnal variation and vertical distribution of carbonaceous aerosols in the southern part of Thailand; Biomonitoring of air borne metal pollution; Seasonal variations in the level of mutagenicity: an assessment of respirable particulate matter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Development of innovative indoor/outdoor air quality monitoring for environmental impact assessment in the State of Qatar; Learning from 24 years of ozone data in Portugal Section 3: Aerosols and particles Study on the size-segregated distribution of 37 species of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban atmospheric fine particles of Japan; Diesel PM collection for marine emission using hole-type electrostatic precipitators; Concentrations of PM2.5 in the northwest of Mexico City: 2004 - 2006 and 2008 - 2012; The effects of gas cooling on removal of SOF and sulphate by electrostatic recipitator for marine diesel; Investigation of electrode arrangement on ionic wind velocity for hole-type electrostatic precipitator Section 4: Exposure and health effects Pollution levels and the effect of air pollution on asthma hospitalisations modified by synoptic weather type and aeroallergens; Environmental burden of disease associated with PM2.5 exposure in Poland and selected neighboring countries Section 5: Emission studies Wind tunnel investigations of pollution dispersion in a scale model of a large area of the city of Geneva; Study of component composition and particle size distribution of dust emissions to solve the problems of environmental quality management; First estimation of CH4 fluxes using the 222Rn Tracer Method over the central Iberian Peninsula; Conversion of nitrogen compounds into nitrogen oxides during combustion in a fluidised bed reactor; Air pollutants emissions from cattle in Galicia, Spain; A national integrated approach to regulate some specific industrial activities on the basis of the application of Best Available Techniques (BAT) and future perspective under the 2010/75/UE Directive Section 6: Air quality management Is Local Air Quality Management a successful strategy for achieving selected EU limit values?; The Norwegian action plan on short-lived climate pollutants; Urban air quality plans in Europe: a review on applied methodologies; Ship emissions from Australian ports Section 7: Indoor air pollution Seasonal trends of indoor particulate matter concentrations in a naturally ventilated school building; Should different gaseous contaminants be treated differently in CFD indoor simulations? Section 8: Case studies Has implementation of Local Air Quality Management reduced local nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the UK?; An attempt to identify stratosphere-troposphere transport of ozone on the basis of beryllium (7Be) activity concentration; A statistical model for 1-hour- to 24-hour-ahead prediction of hourly ozone concentrations at ground level in Singapore