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Urban Air Pollution

Monitoring and Control Strategies

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Ivo Allegrini

    1. Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico, CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, Italy

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  2. Franco Santis

    1. Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico, CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, Italy

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (ASEN, volume 8)

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Chemistry of Urban Pollution

    1. Urban atmospheric pollution: review of the state-of-the-art

      • Ivo Allegrini
      Pages 1-19

    2. Atmospheric Chemistry Relevant to Urban Pollution

      • K. H. Becker, I. Barnes
      Pages 21-39

    3. Laboratory studies for understanding atmospheric chemical processes

      • Jens Hjorth
      Pages 41-56

    4. Studies of photochemical ozone formation in toluene/NOx/air systems by empirical and numerical simulations

      • Montserrat Martín-Reviejo, Klaus Wirtz, Karl H. Becker
      Pages 57-67

    5. Laboratory Studies of Elementary Reactions

      • Christa Fittschen
      Pages 69-76

  4. Source characterization

    1. Monitoring and Modeling Methods for Developing Air Pollution Control Strategies: A Case Study in the Northwest Czech Republic

      • R. K. Stevens, J. P. Pinto, R. D. Willis, Y. Mamane, J. J. Novak, I. Benes
      Pages 151-166

    2. Some results of mobile measurements of the influence of the town Sofia on air pollution in the surrounding area

      • Vassil Andreev
      Pages 167-175

    3. Non-methane hydrocarbon measurements in a road tunnel in Budapest

      • Lászlo Haszpra, István Szilágyi
      Pages 177-186

    4. Applications of Highly-Resolved Size-Spectra for Source Attribution, Growth, and Deposition of Urban Aerosol Particles Bearing Various Elements

      • J. M. Ondov, F. Divita Jr., T. L. Quinn, M. Han
      Pages 187-197

    5. Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy for Particle Characterization and in Support of Receptor Modelling

      • Yaacov Mamane
      Pages 199-212

    6. Vehicular Contributions to Primary Airborne Particulate Matter and Urban Air Quality

      • Andrew Deacon, Roy M. Harrison
      Pages 213-223

    7. Receptor Methods for VOC Source Apportionment in Urban Environments

      • Charles W. Lewis
      Pages 225-234

  5. Local/Regional Studies

    1. Air pollution Characteristics of a Region of Sofia and Data from Field Experiments (1992-1993)

      • Ekaterina Batchvarova, Dimiter Syrakov, Anna Tzenkova
      Pages 235-242
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This book presents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop which was also financially supported by the National Research Council of Italy. The Workshop was held from October 9 to 15, 1994, at the Centro Ettore Maiorana in Erice, Italy. Over 40 researchers from a wide variety of fields attended the Workshop, which brought to attention the ongoing research on various phenomena related to urban air pollution. The presence of high levels of atmospheric pollutants in the air of several urban centres of developed and developing countries causes a great concern among authorities and public opinion. Some 20% of the European population live in cities of more than 500,000 inhabitants and about 40% in cities of more than 50,000. Since exceedance of the Air Quality Guidelines has been observed to occur worldwide, a great effort has been addressed to the control of primary pollutants, but many problems related to secondary pollutants such as nitrogen containing species (nitrogen oxides, nitric and nitrous acid, ni trates) and photochemical oxidants (ozone, PAN and others) are far from being solved. The importance of atmospheric chemistry in understanding the processes occurring in urban atmospheres has been well recognised, thus there is a strong need to exchange experiences and results from urban centres in different Countries. Indeed, atmospheric pollution is very much dependent on the type of emissions which are very different according to the economic development of the urban centre under consideration.

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  • Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico, CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, Italy

    Ivo Allegrini, Franco Santis

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