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Global impacts of aircraft emissions on air quality and nitrogen deposition

Domingos de Azevedo Quadros, F. (author)

Global passenger air traffic has doubled in the 13 years prior to 2019, and is expected to double again over the next 20 years or so. Growing demand for aviation is met by a corresponding increase in jet fuel being burned by aircraft, releasing multiple pollutants into the atmosphere. Besides disturbing the Earth’s radiative balance, these...

doctoral thesis 2024

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Do wool carpets ‘clean’ the air or not? A study on the sorption effects of wool carpets by sensory evaluation

Noorian Najafabadi, S.A. (author), Ding, Er (author), Hobeika, N. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important aspect of maintaining human health and well-being, particularly since people spend most of their time indoors. Carpets, with their large surface area and dense fibre piles, have the potential to significantly impact IAQ by emitting and absorbing volatile organic compounds (VOC) from building materials and...

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What factors influence the intention to use electric motorcycles in motorcycle-dominated countries? An empirical study in Vietnam

Nguyen-Phuoc, Duy Quy (author), Truong, Thi Minh (author), Nguyen, Minh Hieu (author), Pham, Huong Giang (author), Li, Z. (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)

Transitioning to electric motorcycles (EMs) can reduce dependence on carbon-based fuels, mitigate air pollution, and lower greenhouse gas emissions in countries where motorcycles dominate the transportation landscape. However, the factors influencing fleet electrification in these countries remain largely unknown. Given that this challenge...

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The challenge of adopting mitigation and adaptation measures for the impacts of sand and dust storms in Eastern Mediterranean Region: a critical review

Eleftheriou, Andreas (author), Mouzourides, Petros (author), Biskos, G. (author), Yiallouros, Panayiotis (author), Kumar, Prashant (author), Neophytou, Marina K.A. (author)

Sand and dust storms (SDS) are a major disruptor in both the source areas where they occur and at distant locations. This critical review aims to address the question of whether mitigation and adaptation measures have been or can be implemented and what is the optimal scale of their implementation to negate the impacts of SDS in Eastern...

review 2023

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Demographic Evaluation and Parametric Assessment of Air Pollutants over Delhi NCR

Khan, Abul Amir Khan (author), Garsa, Kalpana (author), Jindal, P. (author), Devara, Panuganti C. S. (author), Tiwari, Shubhansh (author), Sharma, P. B. (author)

The impact of air pollution on people and the environment is a severe issue that has recently been the subject of extensive research. This study has looked at the factors that contribute to the seasonal and spatial variability of pollutant concentration over Delhi NCR from 2019 to 2021. Additionally, the causes of changes in air quality during...

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Linking indoor particulate matter and black carbon with sick building syndrome symptoms in a public office building

Nezis, Ioannis (author), Biskos, G. (author), Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos (author), Fetfatzis, Prodromos (author), Popovicheva, Olga (author), Sitnikov, Nikolay (author), Kalantzi, Olga Ioanna (author)

Poor indoor air quality is an important issue for public and occupational health worldwide. Location, air-tightness of the building, ventilation rate and resident activities play an important role on the concentration of indoor pollutants and subsequently on their effects on human health. While indoor air pollution in working environments has...

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Validation and optimization of the ATMO-Street air quality model chain by means of a large-scale citizen-science dataset

Hooyberghs, H. (author), De Craemer, S. (author), Lefebvre, W. (author), Vranckx, S. (author), Maiheu, B. (author), Trimpeneers, E. (author), Vanpoucke, C. (author), Janssen, S. (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author), Fierens, F. (author)

Detailed validation of air quality models is essential, but remains challenging, due to a lack of suitable high-resolution measurement datasets. This is particularly true for pollutants with short-scale spatial variations, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO₂). While street-level air quality model chains can predict concentration...

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Neighborhood effects on health: A multilevel analysis of neighborhood environment, physical activity and public health in suburban Shanghai

Tao, Y. (author), Ma, Jing (author), Shen, Yue (author), Chai, Yanwei (author)

With great concern over the health-promoting environment worldwide, there is a growing body of research into the neighborhood effects on health beyond the sole focus on individual socioeconomic disadvantages and lifestyle risks. Our study contributes to neighborhood health research by investigating the combined effects of multi-dimensional...

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Cleaner Skies during the COVID-19 Lockdown

Voigt, Christiane (author), Lelieveld, Jos (author), Schlager, Hans (author), Schneider, Johannes (author), Curtius, Joachim (author), Bohn, Birger (author), Mertens, M. (author), Grewe, V. (author), Lucke, J.R. (author)

During spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused massive reductions in emissions from industry and ground and airborne transportation. To explore the resulting atmospheric composition changes, we conducted the BLUESKY campaign with two research aircraft and measured trace gases, aerosols, and cloud properties from the boundary layer to the...

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Framework of visualising and analysing urban transformation features responding to Covid 19 pandemic

Chu, L. (author), Nelen, Jeroen (author), Höller, L. (author), Lasch, Hülya (author), Schubert, Dirk (author), Hein, C.M. (author), Lofi, C. (author)

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution is one of the main public health concerns worldwide. Exposure to air pollution is highly related to a range of diseases including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, such as lung cancers, asthma, diabetes, irregular heartbeat, stroke and obesity [1-3]. The outbreak of the pathogenic agent of...

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The impact of street canyon morphology and traffic volume on NO₂ values in the street canyons of Antwerp

Voordeckers, D. (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author), Billen, P. (author), Tytgat, T. (author), Van Acker, M. (author)

Air pollution remains a major environmental and health concern in urban environments, especially in street canyons that show increased pollution levels due to a lack of natural ventilation. Previous studies have investigated the relationship between street canyon morphology and in-canyon pollution levels. However, these studies are typically...

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The association of in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution with low birth weight in India

Goyal, N. (author), Canning, David (author)

A growing body of research indicates that in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a risk factor for low birth weight (LBW). However, research on India, where the high and rising level of ambient air pollution is a significant health concern, is limited. In this study, we analyze the association between ambient PM2.5...

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Comparisons of simple and complex methods for quantifying exposure to individual point source air pollution emissions

Henneman, Lucas R. F. (author), Dedoussi, I.C. (author), Casey, Joan A. (author), Choirat, Christine (author), Barrett, Steven R. H. (author), Zigler, Corwin M. (author)

Expanded use of reduced complexity approaches in epidemiology and environmental justice investigations motivates detailed evaluation of these modeling approaches. Chemical transport models (CTMs) remain the most complete representation of atmospheric processes but are limited in applications that require large numbers of runs, such as those that...

journal article 2020

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Visual Interpretation of Recurrent Neural Network on Multi-dimensional Time-series Forecast

Shen, Qiaomu (author), Wu, Yanhong (author), Jiang, Yuzhe (author), Zeng, Wei (author), Lau, Alexis K.H. (author), Vilanova Bartroli, A. (author), Qu, Huamin (author)

Recent attempts at utilizing visual analytics to interpret Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) mainly focus on natural language processing (NLP) tasks that take symbolic sequences as input. However, many real-world problems like environment pollution forecasting apply RNNs on sequences of multi-dimensional data where each dimension represents an...

conference paper 2020

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The co-pollutant cost of carbon emissions: An analysis of the US electric power generation sector

Dedoussi, I.C. (author), Allroggen, Florian (author), Flanagan, Robert (author), Hansen, Tyler (author), Taylor, Brandon (author), Barrett, Steven R. H. (author), Boyce, James K. (author)

Fossil fuel combustion releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere along with co-pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and others. These emissions result in environmental externalities primarily in terms of climate and air quality. Here we quantify the cost of co-pollutant emissions per ton of CO ₂ emissions from US...

journal article 2019

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Towards zero CO2-, NOX- and PM10-emissions by passenger cars: Technology & Behaviour

Vleugel, J (author), Bal, Frans (author)

Modern societies rely on mass mobility, in particular by private car. Car numbers are growing worldwide due to economic and other factors. Nearly, all have engines that run on fossil fuels. Use of fossil fuels contributes to climate change (via CO ₂-emissions) and local air pollution (primary NO _x- and PM ₁₀...

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Long-term observations of the background aerosol at Cabauw, The Netherlands

Mamali, D. (author), Mikkilä, J. (author), Henzing, B (author), Spoor, R. (author), Ehn, M. (author), Petäjä, T. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author), Biskos, G. (author)

Long-term measurements of PM_2.5 mass concentrations and aerosol particle size distributions from 2008 to 2015, as well as hygroscopicity measurements conducted over one year (2008–2009) at Cabauw, The Netherlands, are compiled here in order to provide a comprehensive dataset for understanding the trends and annual variabilities of...

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Maritime NO_x Emissions Over Chinese Seas Derived From Satellite Observations

Ding, J. (author), Johannes Van Der A, Ronald (author), Mijling, B (author), Jalkanen, J. P. (author), Johansson, L (author), Levelt, Pieternel Felicitas (author)

By applying an inversion algorithm to NO_x satellite observations from Ozone Monitoring Instrument, monthly NO_x emissions for a 10 year period (2007 to 2016) over Chinese seas are presented for the first time. No effective regulations on NO_x emissions have been implemented for ships in China, which is reflected...

journal article 2018

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Air pollutant sinks on noise barriers: Where do they perform the best?

Dash, A. (author), Elsinga, G.E. (author)

While laboratory experiments, numerical simulations as well as field tests have underlined the influence of noise barriers in dispersing vehicular emissions and reducing downwind peak concentrations, these pollutants still remain in the atmosphere. Artificial pollutant sinks (for example, particle capturing or toxic gas treating devices)...

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Biomonitor-Reflection of Large-Distance Air Mass Transported Trace Elements

Henriques Vieira, B.J. (author)

The present thesis’ topic is the biomonitoring of atmospheric trace elements with attention focused on the long-range transported trace elements. The aim was to provide improved understanding of aerosol characteristics under the atmospheric transport dynamics of Central North Atlantic at different altitudes, and also evaluate the usability of...

doctoral thesis 2017