Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution

Section 1 - Turbulence Modelling at Small and Meso Scales: Calibration of the dispersion code SAFE_AIR using a release in nocturnal low wind conditions; Airflow and dispersion around multiple buildings; An algebraic expression for the eddy diffusivity in the residual layer; A validation of large eddy simulation for complex urban environments; A model for simulating airflow and pollutant dispersion around buildings; Large-eddy simulation of the stable boundary layer and implications for transport and dispersion; Application of adaptive grid refinement to plume modeling. Section 2 - Pollution Engineering: Reduction of air pollutants emissions from industrial furnaces and boilers; Design and use of a mobile air treatment exhaust system for air pollution control during the removal of breached drums of hazardous waste at Drum Burial Area V, Panoche Landfill, Solano County, California; Numerical simulation of flow patterns of disks in the symmetric moving granular filter bed; Internet applications as a link between the environmental information systems and public; Hybrid processes for the removal of VOCs in gaseous emissions; A phenomenological approach to the performance of shutter type air curtains. Section 3 - Pollution Management: An assessment of the effects of local government organisation on air quality management practices; Reduction of air pollution by pollution prevention approach in the Czech Republic; Determination of optimal pollution levels through multiple-criteria decision making: an application to the Spanish electricity sector; Communication and co-operation within and between local authorities - an attempt to quantify management practices and their effect on the air quality management process; Developments in urban local authority capability and practice in air quality management: a temporal comparison between practice in 1994 and 1998; Best practice in English Local Air Quality Management: principles illustrated by some examples of current practice ; The UK National Air Quality Strategy: the effects of the proposed changes on Local Air Quality Management; Refinery MACT economics: The interaction of technology, feed quality and regulatory standards. Section 4 - Urban and Suburban Transport Emissions: The range and effectiveness of short-term measures to reduce traffic emissions during high air pollution episodes; Urban air pollution caused by motor-traffic; Integrating a new traffic emissions model with an urban dispersion model: an innovative approach for urban transport policies assessment and air quality management; Vehicular modal emission and fuel consumption factors in Hong Kong. Section 5 - Urban Air Pollution: Photochemical modelling of the Barcelona area under weak pressure synoptic summer conditions; Urban air pollution and forests; The use of passive sampler for the measurement of street level air pollutants; Air pollution in Reykjvik, the capital of Iceland; Optimization of urban geometry to minimize the effect of automotive pollution. Section 6 - Emission Inventories and Modelling: Global a-hexachlorocyclohexane emission with 1N x 1N longitude/latitude resolution; PAH emission from the steel and iron industries; Atmospheric emission data inventory for air quality planning at a regional scale; A methodology for examining the long-range transport and the source-receptor relationships for acidic pollutants; Comparing contribution of different NMHC sources using a receptor model and emission inventory in Mexico City; Influence of ship emission on atmospheric pollutant concentration around Osaka Bay area, Japan; Estimate of volatile organic compounds emissions from vegetation in regional air quality management plans; Identification of emission sources by trace metal concentration: Cement industry as case study. Section 7 - Health Problems: Is the internal burden in human beings reflected by air pollution measurements?; Estimation of health damage due to emission of air pollutants by cars: the canyon effect; Uncertainty about components of PM10 and their toxicities and its effect on estimation of health damage; Prediction of children's deciduous teeth lead concentrations using multiple linear regression and logistic models. Section 8 - Indoor Pollution: Human exposure to particles due to indoor cleaning activities; A study on indoor air quality and photochemical pollution in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy; Outdoor-indoor air quality in Riyadh: NO, NO2 and O3. Section 9 - Fluid Mechanics for Environmental Problems: Applicability of the FLUENT computational fluid dynamics package to air quality problems; Impact of the thermal stratification on the atmospheric flow over a topography; Modelling of trace gas pollutants in human inhalation test chambers. Section 10 - Monitoring and Field Studies: Temporal and spatial variation of volatile hydrocarbon compounds in the Milan area; Monitoring the Bavarian nuclear power plants with an on-line lagrangian dispersion model - improving the prognoses using precipitation and mixing height data; Ozone measurements in Northern Italy and in Canton Ticino, Switzerland; Biomarkers of the effect of VOC exposure: Recent developments; Preliminary results of atmospheric trace metal deposition in Portugal quantified by moss biomonitoring; Variability of sea-salt deposition assessed by lichen monitoring in the south-west Portuguese coast; A year's radon measurements in Milan and at EMEP station in Ispra (Lake Maggiore, Italy); Day-night ozone patterns found in the city of Cartagena; Ozone and NOy in the Milan plume: The episode of June 19-21, 1998; Development of a personal computer software tool for guided analysis of speciated hydrocarbon, particulate matter, and other ambient air quality data; A characterization of the weekday-weekend behavior of ambient ozone concentrations in California; Linking changes in ozone to changes in emissions and meteorology. Section 11 - Chemistry of Air Pollution: Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols and climate: global coupling; Modelling heterogeneous reactions in air pollution models; Applicability of a photochemical box model over complex coastal areas; Assessment of the organic compound reactivity concept for regulatory applications in California; An atmosphere -- chemistry model hierarchy. Section 12 - Air Pollution Modelling: Improved operational mesoscale urban and regional air quality models by using Internet/JAVA tools; Forest fires and air pollution: A local and a global perspective; Aircraft emissions and air quality of the tropopause region - a model study of the North Atlantic flight corridor; A highly accurate numerical advection algorithm for calculating transport of atmospheric pollutants; Why and how to harmonise air pollution impact assessment models?; On-line coupling between a mesoscale meteorological model and gas phase/aerosol modules: preliminary results; Comparison of the performance of MAQSIP and SAQM in modeling California's South Coast Air Basin; Sensitivity of the AERMOD air quality model to the selection of land use parameters; An integrated assessment of acidification. eutrophication and ozone formation using regional scale air pollution models; Air pollutant transport within the Mexico City Basin; Evaluation and comparison of AERMOD and HPDM models; Modelling dispersion of heavy particulate matter; MONTECARLO - a new, fully-integrated PC software for the 3D simulation and visualization of air pollution dispersion using Monte Carlo Lagrangian Particle (MCLP) techniques; A semi-empirical model relating meteorology and ozone in the San Francisco Bay area;An air quality model for central Mexico; One-atmosphere dynamics description in the Models-3 Community Multi-Scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system; Photochemical reactivity of organic compounds in central California: a grid-based modeling study; An European heavy pollution episode simulated at the synoptic, regional and local scales; Modelling air quality episodes for Hong Kong. Section 13 - Aerosols and Particles: A semi-empirical model for evaluating urban particulate matter concentrations; Generation of polar organic aerosols from combustion processes; The effect of rain on suspended particulate matter and other pollutants in an urban area; The effects of calcium and magnesium on size-distributed particulate nitrate and ammonium in an urban area; Development of the UAM-VPM ozone/particulate modeling system; Discrete single particle microanalysis of soots; Impact of aerosol size representations on aerosol modeling; A study of sulfur dioxide oxidation pathways over a range of liquid water contents, pHs and temperatures; Characteristics of raindrop acidification by concurrent washout of SO2(g) and HNO3(g). Section 14 - Air Pollution Meteorology: Comparison of nesting techniques within a meteorological model; Visibility trends in the Los Angeles Basin, 1933 - present; Vertical velocity P.d.f. in different atmospheric turbulence conditions assessed by a new formulation of the Gram-Charlier method; Numerical simulations of vertically distributed clouds in the coastal area; Application of neural networks to model the Monin-Obukhov length and the mixed-layer height from ground-based meteorological data; Implementation of a modern meteorological and radiological early warning system in Algeria; Evaluation of mixing height over complex coastal terrain.