Urban Air Pollution

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

3. Monitoring

   1. Design and planning of field campaigns

      • Finn Palmgren

      Pages 77-99

   2. Diffusion Denuders: tools for simultaneous sampling of NO2 and PAN and for the determination of reactivity of marble surfaces

      • F. De Santis, I. Allegrini, P. Di Filippo, D. Pasella

      Pages 101-113

   3. A New Approach to Designing of Air Quality Monitoring Networks in Urban Areas

      • Grazyna Mitosek

      Pages 115-123

   4. The Monitoring System for Urban Air Pollution in Belarus

      • Ivan I. Matveenko, Marina A. Podgayskaya

      Pages 125-130

   5. Recent Developments in Atmosphere Pollution Control

      • G. Elisei

      Pages 131-143

   6. Complex Analysis of the atmosphere contamination in industrial centers of Belarus

      • A. A. Kovalyov, I. I. Lishtvan

      Pages 145-149

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

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.

• Luftverschmutzung
• Städtische luftverschmutzung
• Umweltchmie
• Umweltschutz
• Urban air pollution
• environment
• environmental chemistry
• environmental protection
• pollution
• air pollution and air quality
• ecotoxicology

• Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico, CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, Italy

  Ivo Allegrini, Franco Santis

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