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Urban Air Pollution - European Aspects

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Jes Fenger

    1. National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark

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  2. Ole Hertel

    1. National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark

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  3. Finn Palmgren

    1. National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Environmental Pollution (EPOL, volume 1)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Statement of the Problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. About the Book

      • Jes Fenger, Ole Hertel, Finn Palmgren
      Pages 3-6

    3. History of Urban Air Pollution

      • Peter Brimblecombe
      Pages 7-20

    4. Europe and Its Cities

      • Knut E. Grønskei
      Pages 21-32

  3. Urban Sources of Air Pollution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-34
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    2. Stationary Sources

      • Jan E. Johnsson
      Pages 35-62

    3. Mobile Sources

      • Zissis Samaras, Spencer C. Sorensen
      Pages 63-91

    4. Emission Inventories

      • Rainer Friedrich, Uwe-Bernd Schwarz
      Pages 93-106

  4. Basic Atmospheric Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-108
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    2. Dynamical and Thermal Processes

      • Knut E. Grønskei
      Pages 109-136

    3. Transformation of Air Pollutants

      • Richard G. Derwent, Ole Hertel
      Pages 137-159

    4. Particles

      • Helmuth Horvath
      Pages 161-173

  5. Air Pollution Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-176
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    2. Regional/Mesoscale Models

      • George Kallos
      Pages 177-196

    3. Urban Scale Models

      • Patrice G. Mestayer
      Pages 197-221

    4. Street Scale Models

      • Ruwim Berkowicz
      Pages 223-251

    5. Stochastic Models

      • Olf Herbarth, Uwe Schlink, Matthias Richter
      Pages 253-259

    6. Wind Tunnel Experiments

      • Michael Schatzmann, Stylianos Rafailidis, Nijs Jan Duijm
      Pages 261-276

  6. Air Quality Measurements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-278
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About this book

Since 1950 the population of the world has more than doubled, and the proportion of people living in cities has increased by a factor of four. In the year 2000 nearly half of the world's population will live in urban areas. Air pollution has always been one of the major nuisances of urban living, but in recent decades the sources of pollution have changed in importance in most of the industrialised world. Earlier they were dominated by individual heating systems, industry and local power plants; now they are mainly related to traffic. Concurrent with this development, the composition of the pollution has changed; it is now dominated by nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and small particles arising from diesel exhaust.
Urban Air Pollution - European Aspects was initiated within the European Community COST-Citair programme, in which many of the authors participated. The book presents an up-to-date account of the situation with special reference to European cities. The structure of the book follows by and large the logical chain of events in air pollution, from sources, through dispersion and deposition, to impacts, with additional chapters on experimental or computational techniques and regulatory aspects. The target group is university students at graduate level, but the book should also be useful for technical experts in international, governmental and municipal institutions as well as in private consulting companies and non-governmental organizations. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark

    Jes Fenger, Ole Hertel, Finn Palmgren

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