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Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVI

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Table of contents (77 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlvii
  2. Regional and Intercontinental Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Establishing the Origin of Particulate Matter in Eastern Germany Using an Improved Regional Modelling Framework

      • R. Timmermans, R. Kranenburg, C. Hendriks, M. Thürkow, I. Kirchner, D. van Pinxteren et al.
      Pages 3-8
    3. Ozone in the Eastern United States: Production Efficiency Variability Over Time and Between Sources

      • Lucas R. F. Henneman, Huizhong Shen, Cong Liu, Yongtao Hu, James A. Mulholland, Armistead G. Russell
      Pages 9-15
    4. Unravelling the Origin of High Ozone Concentrations in Southwestern Europe

      • María Teresa Pay, Carlos Pérez-García Pando, Marc Guevara, Oriol Jorba, Sergey Napelenok, Xavier Querol
      Pages 17-21
    5. Effects of Using Two Different Biogenic Emission Models on Ozone and Particles in Europe

      • Jianhui Jiang, Sebnem Aksoyoglu, Giancarlo Ciarelli, Emmanouil Oikonomakis, André S. H. Prévôt
      Pages 29-34
    6. A Proof-of-Concept for Linking the Global Meteorological Model, MPAS-a with the Air Quality Model, CMAQ

      • David Wong, Hosein Foroutan, Jonathan E. Pleim, O. Russell Bullock Jr., Robert C. Gilliam, Jerold A. Herwehe et al.
      Pages 35-40
    7. Trend Analysis of Air Pollution and Nitrogen Deposition Over the Netherlands Using the EMEP4NL and OPS Model

      • Eric van der Swaluw, Wilco de Vries, Roy Wichink Kruit, Jan Aben, Massimo Vieno, Hilde Fagerli et al.
      Pages 47-51
    8. Modelling the Concentration of Ammonia and Exceedance of the Critical Level in the UK

      • Anthony Dore, Jane Hall, Ed Rowe, Oliver Pescott, Edward Carnell, Samuel Tomlinson et al.
      Pages 59-64
    9. Stratospheric Age-Of-Air and SF6 Simulations with Silam

      • Rostislav Kouznetsov, Mikhail Sofiev, Julius Vira, Gabriele Stiller
      Pages 65-69
    10. Spatio-Temporal Monitoring and Modelling of Birch Pollen in Belgium

      • Andy Delcloo, Willem W. Verstraeten, Sebastien Dujardin, Nicolas Bruffaerts, Marijke Hendrickx, Rafiq Hamdi et al.
      Pages 71-75
    11. Comprehensive Modelling and Visualization of Particulate Matter in Support of Air Quality Management in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

      • Peter L. Jackson, Dennis Fudge, Bruce Ainslie, John Spagnol, Christophe Corbel, Andreas Veira et al.
      Pages 83-88
    12. Source Localization of Ruthenium-106 Detections in Autumn 2017 Using Inverse Modelling

      • Pieter De Meutter, Johan Camps, Andy Delcloo, Piet Termonia
      Pages 89-92
    13. Comparing the ISORROPIA and EQSAM Aerosol Thermodynamic Options in CAMx

      • Bonyoung Koo, Swen Metzger, Pradeepa Vennam, Chris Emery, Gary Wilson, Greg Yarwood
      Pages 93-98
    14. Development and Current Status of the GEM-MACH-Global Modelling System at the Environment and Climate Change Canada

      • Jack Chen, Diane Pendlebury, Sylvie Gravel, Craig Stroud, Irena Ivanova, Jean DeGranpré et al.
      Pages 107-112

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About this book

Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modeling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modeling; emission modeling and processing; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; atmospheric aerosols. Additionally, this work also examines the relationship between air quality and human health and the effects of climate change on air quality.

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the 36th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held in Ottawa, Canada, May 14-18, 2018.

The book is intended as reference material for students and professors interested in air pollution modeling at the graduate level as well as researchers and professionals involved in developing and utilizing air pollution models.

Editors and Affiliations

  • VITO NV, Mol, Belgium

    Clemens Mensink

  • Environment and Climate Change Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, Canada

    Wanmin Gong

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Amir Hakami

About the editors

Dr Clemens Mensink is head of the environmental modelling unit at VITO in Belgium. The unit employs 85 researchers, ICT professionals  and technicians. It develops, improves and implements methodologies and computer models to estimate the impact of human activities on air, water and soil quality in a spatial context. Clemens received his PhD (1992) and a post graduate degree (1988) in fluid dynamics from the Von Karman Institute in Belgium. He studied chemical engineering, fluid mechanics and numerical mathematics, and received his MSc (1987) in mechanical engineering from University of Twente in the Netherlands. In 1998 he received the ENERO prize. Clemens is currently president of the International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Applications. He is an expert in air pollution modelling and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in international journals.  He is lecturing air pollution modelling at Ghent University (postgraduate studiesin weather and climate modelling) and University of Hasselt.

Wanmin Gong is a research scientist at the Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, located in Toronto, Ontario. He received his B.Sc. from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, P. R. China, and his Ph.D. from the University of Reading, U.K. His main research area is in regional air quality modelling, including model development and evaluation, with a focus on cloud processing and interaction with atmospheric tracers. For this purpose he used an on-line, fully coupled, air quality forecast model to investigate the impact of cloud-aerosol interaction on weather and air quality. More recently, his research activities are focused on the development of air quality modeling capability for the Arctic and Canada’s northern region and the investigation, in conjunction with field observations, the sources and processes affectingthe Arctic atmospheric composition and their impact on the Arctic environment and climate.


Amir Hakami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He joined Carleton University after receiving his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and completing postdoctoral work at Caltech in 2007. His expertise is in the general area of air quality modeling, with specialization in development and applications of air pollution sensitivity

analysis tools and models. Dr. Hakami’s current research foci include air pollution health effects estimation, air pollution economics, decision support systems, uncertainty analysis, inverse modeling, satellite remote sensing of air quality, and long-range transport of pollution. During the last 18 years, Dr. Hakami has made significant contributions to development of sensitivity analysis and probing tools for air quality models in general, and for the USEPA’s CMAQ model in particular. He is the lead researcher for implementing adjoint sensitivity analysis method in CMAQ and has previously developed the high-order direct decoupled method (HDDM) for sensitivity analysis which was later implemented in CMAQ and CAMx.

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