The distribution of Particulate Matter in the atmosphere, resulting from emissions produced by cars, trucks, ships, industrial estates and agricultural complexes, is a topical public health problem that has increased in recent decades due to environmental factors in advanced economies in particular. This contribution relates the health impact caused by concentrations of Particulate Matter (PM) ...

Exposure to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) exacerbates respiratory and cardiovascular conditions and is a leading source of premature mortality globally. Organic aerosol contributes a significant fraction of PM in the United States. Here, using surface observations between 1990 and 2012, we show that organic carbon has declined dramatically across the entire United States by 25-50%; accoun...

I explore the advantages of tradable emission permits over uniform emission standards when the regulator has incomplete information on firms’ emissions and costs of production and abatement (e.g., air pollution in large cities). Because the regulator only observes each firm’s abatement technology but neither its emissions nor its output, there are cases in which standards can lead to lower emis...

Emissions to air are reported by countries to EMEP. The emissions data are used for country compliance checking with EU emission ceilings and associated emission reductions. The emissions data are also necessary as input for air quality modelling. The quality of these “official” emissions varies across Europe. As alternative to these official emissions, a spatially explicit high-resolution emis...

According to the source, particulate matter produced during vehicle driving can be divided into exhaust emission and non-exhaust emission. Exhaust includes pipe crankcase emission, while brake wear, tire road wear dust. For a long time, it has been considered that pollution of motor vehicles mainly comes from emissions, control in various countries is concentrated tail gas. However, with contin...

This paper aims to estimate the rate of particulate contaminants emitted by multiple sources, whose values are unknown, using identified receptors distributed around sources. In a nuclear emergency with release radionuclides into atmosphere, in order make correct decision, it is necessary identify source term and its rate, as well meteorological data, essential factors for defining direction si...

[1] This document describes two updates and a correction that affect two figures (Figures 1 and 14) in ‘‘Control of fossil-fuel particulate black carbon and organic matter, possibly the most effective method of slowing global warming’’ by Mark Z. Jacobson (Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(D19), 4410, doi:10.1029/2001JD001376, 2002). The modifications have no effect on the numerical simulati...