Recent developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; aerosol transformation. Additionally, this work also examines the relationship between air quality and human health and the effects of climate change on air quality. The work derives from a series of papers presented at the 33 rd International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application held in Miami, USA, August 27 - 31, 2013. The book is intended as reference material for students and professors interested in air pollution modelling at the graduate level as well as researchers and professionals involved in developing and utilizing air pollution models.

Latest research results in important applied field Contributions from world leading scientists Comprehensive set of key topics

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Part I Air quality and human health.- Use of air quality modeling results in health effects research.- 2 Air quality effects on human health.- 3 Development of model-based air pollution exposure metrics for use in epidemiologic studies.- 4 Improved spatiotemporal air pollutant mixture characterization for health studies.- 5 Advances in linked air quality, farm management and biogeochemistry models to address bidirectional ammonia flux in CMAQ.- 6 A temporal NO x emissions trading system: case study of US power plants.- 7 Source attribution of attainment and exposure-based ozone metrics in North America.- 8 CASTNET methodology for modeling dry and total deposition.- 9 ACCEPTED: an Assessment of Changing Conditions, Environmental Policies, Time-activities, Exposure and Disease.- Part II Climate change and air quality.- 10 Studying aerosol-cloud-climate interactions over East Asia using WRF/Chem.- 11 Investigation of trends in aerosol direct radiative effects over North America using a coupled meteorology-chemistry model.- 12 Future year air quality change due to growth in aircraft emissions and changes in climate.- Part III Aerosols in the atmosphere.- 13 The use of a Non Negative Matrix Factorization method combined to PM 2.5 chemical data for a source apportionment study in different environments.- 14 On the interplay between upper and ground levels dynamics and chemistry in determining the surface aerosol budget.- 15 Modeling of aerosol indirect effects with WRF/Chem over Europe.- 16 The influence of cloud chemical processes on the formation of secondary particulate matter.- 17 An improved volatility basis set for modeling organic aerosol in both CAMx and CMAQ.- 18 Issues related to on/offline meteorological and atmospheric chemistry model coupling.- 19 Increases in wintertime oxidation capacity counteract the success of emission reduction measures in Europe with respect to secondary inorganic aerosols.- 20 Investigating the contribution of biogenic emissions to the formation of secondary pollutants in Portugal.- 21 Modelling aerosol-cloud-meteorology interaction: a case study with a fully coupled air quality model (GEM-MACH).- 22 Evaluation of cloud chemistry mechanism towards laboratory experiments.- 23 Effects of surf zone sea-spray particles on aerosol concentration in coastal area.- 24 Novel pathways to form secondary organic aerosols: glyoxal SOA in WRF/Chem.- 25 Modeling seasonal changes in organic aerosol composition at the puy de Dôme (France).- 26 Using WRF-CMAQ air quality modelling system to estimate BaP concentrations over Zaragoza (Spain).- 27 The POAEMM project: prediction of spatial and temporal variation of marine aerosols in coastal area.- 28 An integrated Weather and Sea State Forecasting system for the Arabian Peninsula (WASSF).- 29 Modelling past and future changes in secondary inorganic aerosol concentrations in the UK.- Part IV Regional and intercontinental modeling.- 30 Modelling the impact of energy transitions on air quality and source receptor relations.- 31 Impact of mercury chemistry on regional concentration and deposition patterns.- 32 A multiscale modeling study to assess impacts of full-flight aircraft emissions on upper troposphere and surface air quality.- 33 Relevance of photolysis frequencies calculation aspects to the ozone concentration simulation.- 34 Air pollution in China in January 2013.- 35 Impact on Ontario's air quality due to changes in North American emission from 2005 to 2020.- 36 Modelling the concentration and deposition of heavy metals in the UK.- 37 A process analysis of the impact of air-quality/weather feedbacks using GEM-MACH.- 38 Analog-based postprocessing methods for air quality forecasting.- 39 Comparing different modeling approaches in obtaining regional scale concentration maps.- 40 Impact of RACM2, halogen chemistry and updated ozone deposition velocity on hemispheric ozone predictions.- 41 A global wildfire emission and atmosphericcomposition: refinement of the Integrated System For Wild-Land Fires IS4FIRES.- 42 The regional LOTOS-EUROS model on tour.- 43 The incorporation of the US national emission inventory into version 2 of the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants inventory.- 44 Impact of vertical and horizontal resolutions on chemistry transport modeling.- 45 A model study on the effects of emission reductions on European air quality between 1990 and 2020.- 46 Analysis and modelling of ambient air toxics pollutants in Canada with Environment Canada AURAMS model.- 47 Investigating the coherence between a global and a limited area model for dust particle production and distribution in N. Africa.- 48 Effects of future ship emissions in the North Sea on air quality.- 49 Temporally and spatially resolved air pollution in Georgia using fused ambient monitor data and chemical transport model results.- 50 Maritime sector emissions contribution to the particulate matter pollution in a Mediterranean city-port: A modeling approach.- 51 Application and evaluation of the high-resolution regional scale FRAME model for calculation of ammonia and ammonium air concentrations for Poland for the years 2002-2008.- 52 Regional transports of atmospheric NO x and HNO 3 over Cape Town.- 53 The impact of transboundary transport of air pollutants on air quality in the United Kingdom and Poland.- Part V Local and urban scale modeling.- 54 A 40-year history of a simple urban dispersion model and its evaluation.- 55 Assessment of the effect of multiscale interactions on the atmospheric flow and the dispersion of air pollution in the city of Paris.- 56 PAHs modelling over urban area of Rome: integration of models results with experimental data.- 57 Modelling the effects of urban morphology, traffic and pedestrian dynamics on students' exposure to air pollution.- 58 LES of advective and turbulent passive scalar fluxes in a street intersection.- 59 Two-phase accidental dense gas releasessimulations with the Lagrangian particle model Microspray.- 60 Modeling of the Urban Heat Island and its effect on air quality using WRF/WRF-Chem Assessment of mitigation strategies for a central European city.- 61 Assessment of three dynamical urban climate downscaling methods.- 62 Validating the RIO-IFDM street canyon coupling over Antwerp, Belgium.- 63 The influence of the changing NO x -split for compliance to the European limit values in urban areas.- 64 Evaluation of air pollution models for their use in emergency response tools in built environments: the 'Michelstadt' case study in COST ES1006 ACTION.- 65 Development of a numerical prediction model system for the assessment of the air quality in Budapest.- 66 Analysis of the differences between pollution levels into a new and an old district of a big city using dispersion simulations at microscale.- 67 Water Tank Simulation of a dense fluid release.- 68 The porosity concept applied to urban c…