Megacity project seeks to gauge urban pollution

Megacity Air Pollution Studies – Seoul ( MAPS – Seoul )

Steering Committee at NIER: You Deok Hong (Air Quality Research Division) Joon Young Ahn (Air Quality Research Division) Chang-Keun Song (Air Quality Forecasting Center) Lim-Seok Chang (Air Quality Forecasting Center) Jeong-Hoo Park (Air Quality Forecasting Center) Sang-Kyun Kim (Global Environment Research Division) Jaehyun Lim (Global Environment Research Division) Ji Young Kim (Air Pollution...

BTEX pollution caused by motorcycles in the megacity of HoChiMinh.

Monitoring of benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTEX) was conducted along with traffic counts at 17 roadside sites in urban areas of HoChiMinh. Toluene was the most abundant substance, followed by p,m-xylenes, benzene, o-xylene and ethylbenzene. The maximum observed hour-average benzene concentration was 254 microg/m3. Motorcycles contributed to 91% of the traffic fleet. High correlations among BTE...

Model calculated global, regional and megacity premature mortality due to air pollution

Air pollution by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) has increased strongly with industrialization and urbanization. We estimate the premature mortality rates and the years of human life lost (YLL) caused by anthropogenic PM2.5 and O3 in 2005 for epidemiological regions defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is based upon high-resolution global model calculations that r...

Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution in Urban Catchments

Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems

Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems: concepts from COST 715 B. Fisher, J. Kukkonen, M. Piringer, M. W. Rotach, and M. Schatzmann Environment Agency, Kings Meadow House, Reading RG1 8DQ, UK Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20 E, 00 880 Helsinki, Finland Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Vienna, Austria Swiss...