Air Pollution: 9th

Section 1: Policy of Strategic Issues Environmental litigation - air pollution models and modelers in court; Economics of integrated pollution prevention policies: introductory remarks; Integrating scientific and lay accounts of air pollution. Section 2: Air Pollution Modelling The evaluation of boundary layer parameters from elementary meteorological data over complex orography areas; Air pollution modelling with turbulence data estimated from conventional meteorological parameters in an urban tropical region; A one-dimensional model based on k-e taking into account the change in basic atmospheric flow with height and stability; Simple diagnostic expressions for the stable and unstable atmospheric boundary layer height; Applied modelling of the mixing height over heterogeneous terrain; Numerical modelling of ollution dispersion in complex terrain; Numerical simulation of atmospheric dispersion in a complex terrain with a shoreline in Korea; A new eddy diffusivity parameterisation for dispersion models: evaluation in different atmospheric conditions; Joint statistical modelling of data related to air pollution; A stochastic approach to the diffusion equation; Mixing height estimation on basis of non-local determination of static stability in an industrial region; Bayesian models of the PM10 atmospheric urban pollution; A lattice gas model for the evaluation of transport and diffusion parameters of stack emissions in air; Prediction of maximum of 24-hour average of PM10 concentrations in Santiago, Chile. Section 3: Urban Air Pollution Preliminary analysis of air quality data from large cities; Urban air quality: a comparison of the air pollution dilemmas facing urban and rural local authorities and approaches to managing them; Vehicle effects on street canyon air pollution pattern; Numerical simulation of airflow in the vicinity of several rectangular-shaped buildings and airflow and dispersion around an L-shaped building; Urban air quality simulation by multi-puff approach and optimum interpolation techniques at Shenyang (P.R. China); Photochemical smog evaluation in the area of Bologna; Study of air pollution due to industrial spots nearby the campus of Zagazig University (Egypt); Composition of coarse and fine fractions of particulate matter at an urban and a conurban site in Northern Italy; Social activities influence on the air quality in San Nicol?s City, Argentina; Indoor and outdoor aldehyde concentrations in a medium-sized French town; Formate, acetate and oxalate in black crusts on historic monuments. Section 4: Air Quality Management Emerging political and collaborative decision-making frameworks for designating air quality management areas (AQMAs) in the UK: implications for future air quality action plans (AQAPs); Multivariate statistical analysis for priority area localization in air quality management plans; Clearing the air - The IPIECA Toolkit; Emerging scientific decision-making for designating air quality management areas (AQMAs) in the United Kingdom; Air quality impacts from hazardous waste combustion at Portland Cement manufacturing plants. Section 5: Pollution Engineering An integrated system for estimating and managing road transport emissions; New technologies in urban transport: emission control techniques and strategies; Removal of complex mixtures of VOC (thinner) from waste air and establishment of the evolution of microbial consortium during biofiltration process; Experimental research on VOC treatment by biofiltration; Performance of co-current horizontal liquid jet ejector scrubber for fly ash removal; Simulation of adsorption processes in gas cleanup filters; Mercury transformation behavior on a bench-scale coal combustion furnace. Section 6: Pollution Management and Control Knocking down of fog system: new theoretical technique and experimental results; Application of system dynamics with GIS for assessing traffic emission management policy; The relationship between traffic throughput and the associated primary pollutants in Surrey; Electron beam treatment of VOCs in air. Section 7: Data Acquisition and Analysis Air pollution from oil product transit enterprises: DOAS in Riga harbour region; The development and implementation of a database driven web-enabled integrated system for air quality observation and analysis; Long-time sampling: a proposal for a new monitoring strategy; Measurement of mercury and trace element emissions from coal combustion boilers; Estimation of VOCs emission factor for semiconductor manufacturing processes; Laboratory tests for the development of a new high uptake rate passive sampler for nitrogen dioxide measurements; Geostatistical analysis of spatial and temporal ozone immission structures; Application of remote-sensing technology in atmospheric environmental assessment; Modelling air pollution in an industrial area using GIS as an assessment tool; Evaluation of PBL parameters from GPS-MET data; Trends in rural sulphur dioxide concentrations in the United Kingdom; Long-term countywide NO2 variations in Surrey; The contribution of biogenic and anthropogenic sources to NMHC levels at urban scale; Analysis of polluted ozone in a mountain area; Air quality data-base implementation by using time series statistic filling; Monitoring air quality in Paul?nia and region using a mobile station; Receptor analysis using neural networks. Section 8: Aerosols and Particles Physical and mineralogical characteristics of the atmospheric aerosol in an area near industrial activity based on mineral raw materials; Transient sulfur dioxide absorption inside a freely falling raindrop with terminal velocity; Sulfur dioxide absorption in a cloud droplet under the influence of convective flows; Acidification of growing cloud droplet by absorption of SO2(g); Performance characterization of the portable miniVOL particulate matter sampler.