air pollution model News
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Chief Medical Officer`s air pollution report features CERC modelling
Three of CERC's projects are featured in a recent report from the Chief Medical Officer for England. The 2022 annual report focusses on air pollution, discussing the effects of air pollution on health, reporting progress made in improving air quality over recent decades, and highlighting possibilities for achievable solutions for continuing improvement. It includes discussion of both outdoor ...
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Recent Air Pollution title from WIT Press
WIT Press Air Pollution XIX Editors: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and J.W.S. Longhurst, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Description: Air Pollution is widespread and a growing challenge to the international community, with known impacts on local and global health and the environment. Governments face a need to ...
By WIT Press
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Lohmeyer implements the dispersion model PROKAS to software product SELMA GIS
SELMAGIS is a system for Air Pollution Modelling and Visualization as an extension in ArcGIS 9.1 - 9.3, 10. SELMAGIS offers a unique graphical user interface to work with different dispersion models. There are implemented yet AUSTAL2000, OML-Highway, MEMO and MARS/MUSE and now PROKAS. PROKAS is able to calculate traffic induced air pollution and includes different module’s. PROKAS_E ...
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PhD Opportunity to Explore the Pollution-Climate-Health Dilemma
CERC is a partner for a PhD studentship harnessing data and air pollution modelling to examine the complex interactions between pollution, climate, and health. The PhD project will delve into the issue of why the public is perceiving a decline in their health and wellbeing due to exposure to air pollutants when, in reality, anthropogenic air pollution emissions have significantly decreased over ...
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EarthSense’s MappAir Air Pollution Model Meets European Air Quality Standards
Following continual assessment, it has been confirmed that EarthSense’s novel MappAir® air quality model complies with the data quality objectives required by Directive 2008/50/EC of European Parliament. Compliance with the directive means data from the model is suitable for assessment purposes by local and central governments for public policy decisions to improve air quality and ...
By EarthSense
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Air pollution monitoring model takes off in Australia
“The Air Pollution Model (TAPM) increases our ability to pinpoint pollutant behaviour in a wider range of atmospheric conditions,” says CSIRO’s Dr Peter Hurley. ”Over the coming years the new model will continue to fill a gap between simple air pollution dispersion models and the much more complex earth system models such as The Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS).” ...
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Air pollution modelling could help predict algal blooms
Models that predict how nitrogen from the air is deposited in the sea could be useful in predicting algal blooms. Based on the knowledge that excess nitrogen increases algal growth rates, researchers simulated nitrogen deposition in the North Sea and suggested that, using predicted weather data, it might be possible to adapt this approach to predict algal blooms. Algae populations are kept under ...
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New review of odour emissions modelling with model intercomparison
Dispersion modelling plays an important role in the assessment of potential odour annoyance for planned activities and the investigation of complaints related to existing facilities. However, compared to general air pollution modelling there are particular challenges associated with modelling odour dispersion and exposure due to the importance of odour variations over short timescales to the ...
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COP26: Verifying Glasgow`s CO2 emissions using ADMS-Urban and measurements
Verification of carbon dioxide emissions is essential to achieving Net Zero and "keeping 1.5 alive". Researchers from CERC, Cambridge University, and ACOEM have collaborated on a project to verify CO2 emissions across greater Glasgow by combining measurements and CERC's ADMS-Urban air pollution dispersion model. The ongoing study, using available traffic data and emissions factors, suggests that ...
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EPA releases air quality model to study harmful air pollution / model will help scientists protect public health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new version of its Community Multi-scale Air Quality model (CMAQ) that uses up-to-the minute meteorology and air chemistry data to determine how weather conditions affect pollution, and how pollution can affect and change weather. Version 5.0 of CMAQ allows scientists to analyze air quality at smaller, finer-resolution settings for ...
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New planning tool for climate adaptation in cities
A changing climate places great pressure on society, and creates many new challenges. To make city planning easier, a planning tool has been developed to support climate adaptation of cities and regions in Europe. The European research project SUDPLAN, co-ordinated by SMHI, has developed a planning tool for climate adaptation of European cities and regions for intensive precipitation, ...
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Lessons from Gothenburg on setting air pollution ceilings
The 2010 deadline for the Gothenburg Protocol ceilings for transboundary air pollutants is fast approaching and new ceilings may soon be set for 2020. Recent research indicates that, although the ceilings have been effective, they could benefit from more flexibility to allow for the inherent uncertainty in modelling future energy use, technologies and growth. The UN Gothenburg Protocol to abate ...
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Modeling the unequal benefits of U.S. environmental policy
Original story at MIT News One of the two top air pollutants in the U.S., ground-level ozone is harmful not only to your health but also to your bank balance. Long-term exposure to high concentrations of ozone can lead to respiratory and lung disease such as asthma, conditions that drive up medical expenses and sometimes result in lost income. Ozone exacts a particularly heavy toll on people ...
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EPA Announces 12th Annual Clean Air Excellence Awards
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is presenting the 12th annual Clean Air Excellence Awards honoring 3 projects and companies from across the Southeast for their work on clean air initiatives. The awards recognize innovative programs that protect Americans' health and the environment, educate the public, serve their communities and stimulate the economy. “The 42-year ...
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Creation of an air pollution scenario impact tool
CERC has developed a digital air pollution impact tool to model the impacts of changes to air pollution sources and the adoption of mitigation measures, on levels of air pollution exposure. The tool is potentially scalable to all London local authorities, and could be a 'ground-breaking' example for city authorities around the world, as are CERC's Breathe London and airTEXT services. This is a ...
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Volume 4 of the `Air Quality Modeling` book series published
Air Quality Modeling: Theories, Methodologies, Computational Techniques, and Available Databases and Software – Volume IV is the fourth and last volume of a comprehensive book series on the subject of air pollution and computer modeling of air quality phenomena. The book series is available both on CD-ROM (see below) and as a bound textbook (search: OTHP-28). The book series is published by ...
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Powerful replacement in works for climate-modeling computer
One of the most powerful computers in the world dedicated to climate change, weather and other earth science research will be replaced in 2017 by an even faster machine, officials announced Monday. The Yellowstone supercomputer in Wyoming currently ranks among the 60 fastest in the world. The new supercomputer, to be named Cheyenne, will be at least 2 1/2 times more powerful, the National Center ...
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RTI wins US$19m contract for EPA air quality monitoring, modeling and research
RTI International, in collaboration with a group of leading environmental research companies, has been awarded a contract to provide a wide range of research and technical support services to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS). The research team led by RTI includes Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG); Neptune and Company, Atmospheric ...
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Greater risk of heart defects for babies born near unconventional gas wells in Colorado
Pregnant women living within 16 km of unconventional gas wells in Colorado, US, are up to 30% more likely to give birth to a baby with a heart defect, new research has found. These findings suggest that more research is needed to understand the potential health impact of natural gas developments, say the researchers. In recent years natural gas development has sharply increased, partly driven by ...
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EPA Announces 12th Annual Clean Air Excellence Awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today is presenting the 12th annual Clean Air Excellence Awards honoring 11 projects and companies from across the United States for their work on clean air initiatives. The awards recognize innovative programs that protect Americans' health and the environment, educate the public, serve their communities and stimulate the economy. “The ...
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