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Urban Air Quality Monitoring, Modelling and Human Exposure Assessment

  • Provides comprehensive information on urban air quality issues and their implementation within monitoring, modelling and management approaches
  • Incorporates special chapters on indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and measurement techniques based on next generation sensors
  • Includes case studies that illustrate the variety of real world air quality management problems

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. Foundations of Air Pollution Monitoring, Modelling, Health Risk and Control Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction to Urban Air Pollution

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Mukesh Khare, Uwe Schlink, Anju Elizbath Peter
      Pages 3-11
    3. Air Quality Monitoring and Techniques

      • R. Ravi Krishna, S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Saraswati, M. Diya
      Pages 13-34
    4. Air Quality Modelling

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Uwe Schlink, Mukesh Khare
      Pages 35-57
    5. Air Quality Management and Control

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Mukesh Khare, Uwe Schlink, M. Diya
      Pages 59-68
    6. Indoor Air Quality

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, V. S. Chithra
      Pages 69-73
    7. Personal Exposure and Health Risk Assessment

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Uwe Schlink, Andrea Müller, Jyothi S. Menon, V. S. Chithra
      Pages 75-87
    8. Air Quality Measuring Sensors

      • S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Uwe Schlink, Mukesh Khare
      Pages 89-104
  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Short-Term Variation of Particulate Matter and Black Carbon During Deepawali Festival in an Urban Area

      • Abhilash T. Nair, S. Devaanandan, S. M. Shiva Nagendra
      Pages 107-118
    3. Predicting Particulate Air Pollution Using Line Source Models

      • Selvakumar Madhavan, S. Geetha
      Pages 137-153
    4. Modeling of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition in India

      • Krish Vijayaraghavan, Shari Libicki, Ross Beardsley, Sunil Ojha
      Pages 183-196
    5. Impact of Increasing Ozone on Agricultural Crop Yields

      • Sonal Kumari, Nidhi Verma, Anita Lakhani, K. Maharaj Kumari
      Pages 211-223

About this book

This contributed volume is primarily intended for graduate and professional audiences. The book provides a basic understanding of urban air quality issues, root causes for local and urban air pollution, monitoring and modelling techniques, assessment, and control options to manage air quality at local and urban scale. The book also offers useful information on indoor air quality and smart sensors, which are gaining much importance in current times.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    S. M. Shiva Nagendra

  • Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Uwe Schlink

  • Molecular Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Andrea Müller

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Mukesh Khare

About the editors

Dr. Shiva Nagendra,SM is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi, India. Dr. Nagendra has more than 20 years' research experience mainly in the field of air quality monitoring, modelling, management, indoor air quality, personal exposure, control technologies and policy implications. His groups research is a mixture of filed and laboratory experiments, micro, local and urban scale air quality characterization, modelling and simulation. He has published more than 75 research publications in international and national peer reviewed journals, one reference book, and over 100 papers in peer reviewed conference proceedings. He is a member of several scientific committees, societies and technical institutions.He is the founding chairman of Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM) series and serves as the Vice President of Society for Indoor Environment. 

Dr. Uwe Schlink is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and Professor at University of Leipzig, Institute of Meteorology. He is heading the Air Quality Research Group in the department. His research areas include urban climate research, thermal comfort, urban air quality;personal exposure and vulnerability with extreme environmental situations in urban areas; statistical modelling and Bayesian inference. He has published around 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 100 conference papers. He is a member of several scientific committees and societies.

Dr. Andrea Müller is a Senior Scientist in the Department Molecular System Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. Her research interestslie in air quality and their impact on human health. Her special research topics are related to: Exposure analyses (indoor and outdoor) of bio aerosols (pollen, mold, bacteria, allergens); Impact of environmental pollutant compounds (air particles) on cell systems; Toxicology and mode of action of single and mixture compounds; Development of methods for analyses of PAHs in particulate matter; Statistical analysis of association between exposure and health outcome; Modeling of distribution of air contaminants

Dr. Mukesh Khare is presently working as a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers India and Fellow of Wessex Institute of Great Britain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Faculty of Engineering from Newcastle University, UK and has managed a range ofenvironmental projects throughout his professional career. With a specialization in air quality modelling, Prof. Khare’s experience has covered research and development studies, teaching, consulting, modelling, editorial activities. In addition, Prof. Khare has authored more than 200 research publications primarily for peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of High Level Task Force (HLTF), under the Prime Minister Office, Government of India. 

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