The paper presents the modelling and simulation of air pollution in urban area using finite element methods. A case study illustrates the method.

Development of strategies to control urban air pollution is a complex and multi-disciplinary process involving a wide range of scientists with different expertise and interests. This paper presents an integrated assessment methodological scheme for the evaluation of air pollution control measures that are put forward in order to reduce sufficiently air pollution levels in urban areas. Forming l...

58 percent of Nairobi’s population live in slums under extremely poor and unhealthy conditions. In these settlements, pneumonia is one of the top causes of health issues and deaths among children and adults, for which indoor air pollution is a known contributor. Yet, the topic of indoor air pollution receives no attention. Regulatory frameworks and budgets for indoor air pollution do not exist ...

56 Systems of stiff chemical reactions are often associated with atmospheric chemistry modelling, which plays a very important 57 role in the studies of stratospheric ozone depletion, tropospheric air pollution problems, and future chemistry-climate feedbacks 58 and interactions. This paper revisits an open-source stiff system solver SVODE and presents its efficient use in modelling different 5...

Air quality assessment and management is usually performed using atmospheric integrated modelling systems and comparisons with data observed by monitoring stations. In Italy, the Project MINNI (National Integrated Model in support to the International Negotiation on Air Pollution) has been supporting Italian Ministry of Environment for the last ten years within the international negotiation pro...

The prime aim of this research is to support decision making, e.g., air quality impact analysis, human health assessment, through spatially modelling traffic-induced air pollution dispersion in urban areas at street level. Based on the information needed in decision making, a framework for a street level air quality decision support system is established, which is composed of basically three pa...

An analysis of predictability of a nonlinear and nonstationary ozone time series is provided. For rigour, the DVS analysis is first undertaken to detect and measure inherent nonlinearity of the data. Based upon this, neural and linear adaptive predictors are compared on this time series for various filter orders, hence indicating the embedding dimension. Simulation results confirm the analysis ...

Asthma is a common disease and appears to be increasing in prevalence. There is evidence linking air pollution, including that from road-traffic, with asthma. Road traffic is also on the increase. Routine surveillance of the impact of road-traffic pollution on asthma, and other diseases, would be useful in informing local and national government policy in terms of managing the environmental hea...

Land use regression (LUR) modelling is a common approach used in European and Northern American epidemiological studies to assess urban and traffic related air pollution exposures. Studies applying LUR in Africa are lacking. A need exists to understand if this approach holds for an African setting, where urban features, pollutant exposures and data availability differ considerably from other co...