Air Pollution Modeling And Its Application XVII

by Borrego, Carlos; Norman, Ann-lise

• ISBN13: 9780387282558
• ISBN10: 0387282556
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume seeks to cover the latest scientific developments in the field of air pollution modelling. It contains papers and posters presented at the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, November 2004.

Author Biography

Carlos Borrego is Professor of Environmental Engineering and Air Pollution Modeling at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Former Minister of Environment (Portuguese Government) and President of the European Union delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio 1992). Chairman of the International Technical Meetings of NATO/CCMS.

Table of Contents

Role of Atmospheric Models in Air Pollution Policy and Abatement Strategies
A Photochemical Screening Tool Based on a Scale Analysis of Ozone Photochemistry	p. 3
Modeling and Analysis of Ozone and Nitrogen Oxides in the Southeast United States National Parks	p. 13
An Investigation of Local Anthropogenic Effects on Photochemical Air Pollution in Istanbul with Model Study	p. 20
Forecasting Urban Meteorology, Air Pollution and Population Exposure (European FUMAPEX Project)	p. 29
Models-3/CMAQ Simulations to Estimate Transboundary Influences on Ozone and Particulate Matter Concentrations Over Ontario in Spring-Summer 1998	p. 41
Cost-Optimized Air Pollution Control Using High-Order Sensitivity Analysis	p. 48
Seasonal Evaluation of EU Road Traffic Emission Abatement Strategies on Photochemical Pollution in Northern Italy	p. 59
Risk Based Approaches to Assessing the Environmental Burden of Acid Gas Emissions	p. 68
Assessment of Different Land Use Development Scenarios in Terms of Traffic Flows and Associated Air Quality	p. 77
Concentrations of Toxic Air Pollutants in the U.S. Simulated by an Air Quality Model	p. 87
A Numerical Study of Recirculation Processes in the Lower Fraser Valley (British Columbia, Canada)	p. 97
A Preliminary Estimate of the Total Impact of Ozone and PM2.5 Air Pollution on Premature Mortalities in the United States	p. 102
Application of a Comprehensive Acid Deposition Model in Support of Acid Rain Abatement in Canada	p. 109
Modeling Source-Receptor Relationships and Health Impacts of Air Pollution in the United States	p. 119
Integrated Regional Modeling
Evaluation of Local Ozone Production of Chamonix Valley (France) During a Regional Smog Episode	p. 129
Alternative Approaches to Diagnosing Ozone Production Regime	p. 140
Analysis of Seasonal Changes of Atmospheric Aerosols on Different Scales in Europe Using Sequentially Nested Simulations	p. 149
Interaction Between Meteorological and Dispersion Models at Different Scales	p. 158
Modeling Photochemical Pollution in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula	p. 167
Modeling the Weekend Effect in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula	p. 177
Transport and Deposition Patterns of Ozone and Aerosols in the Mediterranean Region	p. 187
On the Formulation and Implementation of Urban Boundary Conditions for Regional Models	p. 197
Computational Model for Transient Pollutants Dispersion in City Intersection and Comparison with Measurements	p. 207
Effects of Climate Change on Air Quality
Air Quality in Future Decades - Determining the Relative Impacts of Changes in Climate, Emissions, Global Atmospheric Composition, and Regional Land Use	p. 217
Calculated Feedback Effects of Climate Change Caused by Anthropogenic Aerosols	p. 227
Dimethyl Sulphide (DMS) and its Oxidation to Sulphur Dioxide Downwind of an Ocean Iron Fertilization Study, SERIES: A Model for DMS Flux	p. 237
Aerosols as Atmospheric Contaminants
Aerosol Modelling with CAMX4 and PMCAMX: A Comparison Study	p. 247
Source Apportionment of Primary Carbonaceous Aerosol Using the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model	p. 257
Urban Population Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution Induced by Road Transport	p. 267
Numerical Simulation of Air Concentration and Deposition of Particulate Metals Emitted from a Copper Smelter and a Coal Fired Power Plant During the 2000 Field Experiments on Characterization of Anthropogenic Plumes	p. 277
Aerosol Production in the Marine Boundary Layer Due to Emissions from DMS: Study Based on Theoretical Scenarios Guided by Field Campaign Data	p. 286
Modelling the Atmospheric Transport and Environmental Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Northern Hemisphere using a 3-D Dynamical Model	p. 295
PM-Measurement Campaign HOVERT: Transport Analysis of Aerosol Components by use of the CTM REM-CALGRID	p. 303
Direct Radiative Forcing due to Anthropogenic Aerosols in East Asia During 21-25 April 2001	p. 312
Modelling Fine Aerosol and Black Carbon over Europe to Address Health and Climate Effects	p. 321
An Approach to Simulation of Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Natural Allergens: An Example of Birch Pollen	p. 331
Cloud Chemistry Modeling: Parcel and 3D Simulations	p. 340
A Test of Thermodynamic Equilibrium Models and 3-D Air Quality Models for Predictions of Aerosol <$>{\rm NO}_3^-<$>	p. 351
New Developments
Comparison of Aggregated and Measured Turbulent Fluxes in an Urban Area	p. 363
Ensemble Dispersion Modeling: ""All for One, One for All!""	p. 371
Linking the ETA Model with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System: Ozone Boundary Conditions	p. 379
Mixing in Very Stable Conditions	p. 391
Air Quality Ensemble Forecast Over the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia	p. 399
Developments and Results from a Global Multiscale Air Quality Model (GEM-AQ)	p. 403
A Variable Time-Step Alogrithm for Air Quality Models	p. 411
Temporal Signatures of Observations and Model Outputs: Do Time Series Decomposition Methods Capture Relevant Time Scales?	p. 421
Wind Tunnel Study of the Exchange Between a Street Canyon and the External Flow	p. 430
An Example of Application of Data Assimilation Technique and Adjoint Modelling to an Inverse Dispersion Problem Based on the ETEX Experiment	p. 438
Micro-Swift-Spray (MSS): A New Modelling System for the Simulation of Dispersion at Microscale. General Description and Validation	p. 449
New Developments on RAMS-Hg Model	p. 459
Adaptation of Analytic Diffusivity Formulations to Eulerian Grid Model Layers of Finite Thickness	p. 468
Particulate Matter Source Apportionment Technology (PSAT) in the CAMx Photochemical Grid Model	p. 478
Model Assessment and Verification
Testing Physics and Chemistry Sensitivities in the U.S. EPA Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (CMAQ)	p. 495
Real-Time Regional Air Quality Modelling in Support of the ICARTT 2004 Campaign	p. 505
High Time-Resolved Comparisons for In-Depth Probing of CMAQ Fine-Particle and Gas Predictions	p. 515
Sensitivity Analysis of the EUROS Model for the 2003 Summer Smog Episode in Belgium	p. 525
A Performance Evaluation of the 2004 Release of Models-3 CMAQ	p. 534
Objective Reduction of the Space-Time Domain Dimensionality for Evaluating Model Performance	p. 543
Cloud Processing of Gases and Aerosols in a Regional Air Quality Model (AURAMS): Evaluation Against Aircraft Data	p. 553
Evaluation of an Annual Simulation of Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter over the Continental United States - Which Temporal Features are Captured?	p. 562
Evaluation of CMAQ PM Results Using Size-resolved Field Measurement Data: The Particle Diameter Issue and Its Impact on Model Performance Assessment	p. 571
The U.K. Met Office's Next-Generation Atmospheric Dispersion Model, NAME III	p. 580
An Operational Evaluation of ETA-CMAQ Air Quality Forecast Model	p. 590
AURAMS/Pacific2001 Measurement Intensive Comparison	p. 599
Analyzing the Validity of Similarity Theories in Complex Topographies	p. 608
Siting and Exposure of Meteorological Instruments at Urban Sites	p. 615
The Effect of the Street Canyon Length on the Street Scale Flow Field and Air Quality: A Numerical Study	p. 632
Limitations of Air Pollution Episodes Forecast due to Boundary-Layer Parameterisations Implemented in Mesoscale Meteorological Models	p. 641
Posters Role of Atmospheric Models in Air Pollution Policy and Abatement Strategies
Use of Lagrangian Particle Model Instead of Gaussian Model for Radioactive Risk Assessment in Complex Terrain	p. 653
Study of Air Pollutant Transport in Northern and Western Turkey	p. 656
Source Term Assessment from Off-Site Gamma Radiation Measurements	p. 659
Determination of the Impact of Different Emission Sources in the Air Quality Concentrations: The Teap Tool	p. 662
Advanced Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling and Probabilistic Consequence Analysis for Radiation Protection Purposes in Germany	p. 664
Integrated Regional Modeling
Comparison of Different Turbulence Models Applied to Modelling of Airflow in Urban Street Canyon and Comparison with Measurements	p. 669
Pollutant Dispersion in a Heavily Industrialized Region: Comparison of Different Models	p. 671
Study of Odor Episodes Using Analytical and Modeling Approaches	p. 674
Application of Back-Trajectory Techniques to the Characterization of the Regional Transport of Pollutants to Buenos Aires, Argentina	p. 677
Effects of Climate Change on Air Quality
Application of Source-Receptor Techniques to the Assessment of Potential Source Areas in Western Mediterranean	p. 683
New Developments
Influence of the Autocorrelation Function in the Derivation of Fundamental Relationship <$>\varepsilon \infty \sigma_v^2/C_0T_{Lv}<$>	p. 689
A Model for Describing the Evolution of the Energy Density Spectrum in the Convective Boundary Layer Growth	p. 692
Simulation of the Dispersion of Pollutants Considering Nonlocal Effects in the Solution of the Advection-Diffusion Equation	p. 695
Concentration Fluctuations in Turbulent Flow	p. 698
Model Assessment and Verification
Skill's Comparison of Three Canadian Regional Air Quality Models Over Eastern North America for the Summer 2003	p. 703
Region-Based Method for the Verification of Air Quality Forecasts	p. 708
On the Comparison of Nesting of Lagrangian Air-Pollution Model Smog to Numerical Weather Prediction Model ETA and Eulerian CTM CAMX to NWP Model MM5: Ozone Episode Simulation	p. 711
High Resolution Air Quality Simulations with MC2-AQ and GEM-AQ	p. 714
Nonlinear Models to Forecast Ozone Peaks	p. 721
Evaluation of MC2 Profile Data During the Pacific2001 Field Study	p. 724
List of Participants	p. 727
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