We have developed an integrated model system, EVA (Economic Valuation of Air pollution), based on the impact-pathway chain, to assess the health-related economic externalities of air pollution resulting from specific emission sources or sectors, which can be used to support policymaking with respect to emission control. Central for the system is a newly developed tagging method capable of calcu...

Cities interact with the atmosphere over a wide range of scales from the large-scale processes, which have a direct impact on global climate change, to smaller scales, ranging from the conurbation itself to individual buildings. The review presented in this paper analyzes some of the ways in which cities influence atmospheric thermodynamics and airborne pollutant transport. We present the main ...

Working on the relationship between respiratory health and atmospheric pollution in French cities led us to adopt a perspective that considers the risk for a single city of showing high levels of respiratory health problems. The risk level in a city is dependent on population vulnerability, the city context and pollutant levels. This presentation focuses on the observation of the unequal pollut...

This paper presents geochemical data from a blanket peat located close to a Bronze Age copper mine on the northern slopes of the Ystwyth valley, Ceredigion, mid-Wales, UK. The research objective was to explore the possibility that the peat contained a geochemical record of the pollution generateD by mining activity. Four peat monoliths were extracted from the blanket peat to reconstruct the pol...

It has been well documented that air pollution adversely affects health, and epidemiological pollution-health studies utilise pollution data from automatic monitors. However, these automatic monitors are small in number and hence spatially sparse, which does not allow an accurate representation of the spatial variation in pollution concentrations required for these epidemiological health studie...

The current work demonstrates the feasibility of atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma technique for NOx pollution control. Atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor has been constructed for the treatment of the exhaust of 4kWs free load diesel engine. The nature and properties of the discharge were identified through studying electrical characterization of the discharg...

The subject of research is the numerical integration of atmospheric chemical kinetics systems. The application lies in the study of air pollution, modelled by atmospheric chemistry-transport problems. This application puts high demands on the eeciency of the stii solver. Three explicit methods are discussed and compared for a selected chemical kinetics system which is representative for the sta...

Peter Carter Climate change and atmospheric GHG pollution In depth Page 28 in the UN Assessment J. Urgency of addressing threats to the ocean The greatest threat to the ocean comes from a failure to deal quickly with the manifold problems that have been described above. Many parts of the ocean have been seriously degraded. If the problems are not addressed, there is a major risk that they will ...

introduction: the process of urbanism in countries that are developing, like islamic republic of iran with increasing of the number and the size of cities and the fast accepting of population have been caused the forming of problems like an in-official economics and in-official settlement and was become creating high population in main and old places of city and increasing of air pollution and ...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract Idealized large-eddy simulations were performed to investigate the impact of different mountain geometries on daytime pollution transport by thermally driven winds. The main objective was to determine interactions bet...