Urban Air Quality - Recent Advances : Recent Advances

This volume presents a collection of fully peer-reviewed papers on the most up-to-date advances in the field of urban air quality. Topics include air quality management and policy, emissions, measurements of air pollution, and more.

Urban Meteorology. Investigating the Surface Energy Balance in Urban Areas - Recent Advances and Future Needs; M. Piringer, et al. The Importance of Mixing Height in Characterising Pollution Levels from Aerosol Optical Thickness Derived by Satellite; A. Dandou, et al. Improvements in Air Quality Modelling by Using Surface Boundary Layer Parameters derived from Satellite Land Cover Data; N. Kitwiroon, et al. Potential and Shortcomings of NWP Models in Providing Meteorological Data for UAP Forecasting; A. Baklanov, et al. Urban Air Pollution - Emissions and Measurements. Trip-Based Explanatory Variables for Estimating Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Emission Rates; Y. Ding, H. Rakha. Results form Three Field Tracer Experiments on the Neighbourhood Scale in the City of Birmingham UK; R.E. Britter, et al. Three-Dimensional Ground-Based Measurements of Urban Air Quality to Evaluate Satellite Derived Interpretations for Urban Air Pollution; K. Schäfer, et al. Air Quality in Major Portuguese Urban Agglomerations; F. Ferreira, et al. Emission Models and Inventories of Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment: Experience in the East Midlands Region of the UK; P.H. Webber, P.D. Fleming. Measurements of Traffic-Induced Turbulence within a Street Canyon during the Nantes ''99 Experiment; G. Vachon, et al. Adapting the Speciation of the VOCs Emission Inventory in the Greater Athens Area; E. Bossiolo, et al. Risk Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds through Daily Life Cycle in the Industrial City in Korea; B-K Lee, J. Cho. Aerosol. The Relative Influences of Primary and Secondary Particulates to Urban Air Quality in the United Kingdom; T. Chatterton, et al. The Spatial and Temporal Variation of Measured Urban PM10 and PM25 in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area;M.A. Pohjola, et al. Diurnal Profile of Particle-bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (pPAH) Concentration in Urban Environment in Tokyo Metropolitan Area; T. Chetwittayachan, et al. Formation and Transport of Atmospheric Aerosol over Athens, Greece; I. Colbeck, et al. The Characterisation of Settled Dust by Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis; V. Shilton, et al. Source Apportionment in the Town of La Spezia (Italy) by Continuous Aerosol Sampling and PIXE Analysis; S. Nava, et al. Roadside Air Quality. Roadway-2: A Model for Pollutant Dispersion near Highways; K.S. Rao. Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Air Pollutant Dispersion in Street Canyons; J.M. Crowther, A.G.A.A. Hassan. Analysis of the St Petersburg Traffic Data Using the OSPM Model; A. Ziv, et al. Examination of Traffic Pollution Distribution in a Street Canyon Using the Nantes''99 Experimental Data and Comparison with Model Results; R. Berkowicz, et al. Studies on Pollutant Dispersion from Moving Vehicles; A.G. Venetsanos, et al. A New Concept from Air Quality Modelling in Street Canyons; C. Mensink, et al. Thermal Effects on the Airflow in a Street Canyon &endash; Nantes ''99 Experimental Results and Model Simulations; P. Louka, et al. Influence of Geometry on the Mean Flow within Urban Street Canyons &endash; A Comparison of Wind Tunnel Experiments and Numerical Simulations; A Kovar-Panskus, et al. Spatial Variability and Source-Receptor Relations at a Street Intersection; A. Robins, E. Savory. Application of Dispersion Modelling for Analysis of Particle Pollution Sources in a Street Canyon; O. Le Bihan, et al. Modelling of Flow and Pollution Dispersion in Two Dimensional Urban Street Canyon; D. Vlachogiannis, et al. Urban Air Pollution Modelling.