This book states that 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; long-term modeling and trend analysis; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; aerosol transformation. 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 39th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, May 22-26, 2023.
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.
Comparing the Air Quality Impacts of Future Decarbonization Scenarios
Using the GCAM-USA CMAQ System of Models.- Nature-based solutions for
climate change adaptation: impacts on temperature and air quality.- Impacts
of biomass burning emissions on aerosol extinction coefficients and
tropospheric ozone production model sensitivity in MATCH.- Review of the
revived and revisited long-range Lagrangian particle dispersion model
MILORD.- Recent advancement of EPAs global air quality modeling system:
MPAS-CMAQ.- How relevant are VOC for the understanding of ozone episodes in
rural areas? Analysis of VOC measurements and WRF-CAMx simulated
concentrations.- Trends and Variability in Concentrations and Source
Contributions of 2002 2019 Ozone and Particulate Matter over the Northern
Hemisphere.- AQ-watchs air quality source attribution and mitigation
service.- Multi-compartment modeling from emission to exposure.- The
Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model Version 5.4: Updates and
Results from Northern Hemispheric Scale Evaluation.- AQMEII PHASE 4,
dissecting the deposition process in regional scale models, preliminary
results.- Uncertainty in policy related cases: nitrogen deposition in
Flanders.- Comparison of 18 years of modeled and observed day-of-week ozone
patterns.- A comparison of CMAQ results with observed PM2.5 concentrations at
the U.S. Diplomatic Missions in India.- CMAQ 5.3 parallel efficiency with MPI
and OpenMP.- Downscaling effect of dry and wet deposition for Nitrogen and
Sulphur compounds in comprising CMAQ and EMEP models over the urban area.-
Comparing the chemical mechanisms CB6r5 and RACM2s21 for a winter ozone
episode in Utah.- Indoor space depollution modelling in urban environments.-
LES the solution to microscale dispersion for indoor and outdoor
environments.- Accounting for uncertainties in high-resolution 3D dispersion
simulations of hazardous materials over huge urban domains.- The assessment
of the dominant pollutants over the air quality status in Sofia city.-
Unknown source parameters estimation in an urban-like domain using RANS and
LES approaches.- Modeling dispersion by indoor turbulence with LES.-
Simulating the dispersion of air emissions and water pollution discharges
from scrubber-equipped ships taking into account the air-water mass
transfer.- CMAQ-AERMOD Hybrid Modeling for EPAs AirToxScreen Toxics
Assessment.- High-resolution case study of pollutant dispersion in an urban
environment using large-eddy simulation.- Evaluation of ALPHA options for
building downwash in the American Meteorological Society Environmental
Protection Agency Regulatory Model (AERMOD).
Professor Clemens Mensink is research director of the Environmental Intelligence unit at VITO in Belgium. VITO is an independent Flemish research organization in the area of cleantech and sustainable development with the goal to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. 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 currently serves as president of the International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Applications. He is an expert in air pollution modeling and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. He is professor atmospheric modeling at Ghent University in Belgium.
Dr. Rohit Mathur is a Senior Scientist with the Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His research deals with the development of novel methods to understand and represent the physical and chemical behavior of atmospheric pollutants in comprehensive modeling frameworks. His work has contributed to the development and continued scientific evolution of several large-scale air pollution modeling systems widely used in research and regulatory applications. During his tenure both at EPA and in prior positions at research and academic institutions, he has served in numerous leadership and science management roles. He holds a B.E. (from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India) and M.S. and Ph.D. (from the University of Kentucky, USA) in Chemical Engineering. He serves on the scientific committee of the International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications and hosted the 2023 meeting at which the papers in this book, were presented.
Saravanan Arunachalam is Deputy Director and Research Professor with the UNC Institute for the Environment (UNC-IE) and Adjunct Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Public Healths Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. UNC-IE develops multidisciplinary collaborations to understand major environmental issues and engages myriad academic disciplines, public and private partners, and an informed and committed community. Within UNC-IE, he directs the Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development (CEMPD) which provides a resource for developing multi-scale applications and research on emissions and air quality modeling. Arunachalam also directs the U.S. EPA funded Center for Community Modeling and Analyses System (CMAS) and the U.S. DOT funded Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT) at UNC. The CMAS center supports a global user community of modelers who use air quality models for both scientific as well as regulatory applications. He also contributes to international policymaking under the United Nations ICAOs Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) through being an invited member of the Impacts and Sciences Group (ISG) focused on aviation air quality impacts and written policy papers. Dr. Arunachalam received his Ph.D. (1998) and M.S. (1993) in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and B.Tech. (1989) in Chemical Engineering from Anna University, India. He is an expert on multi-scale modeling techniques for source apportionment and impact assessment. Dr. Arunachalam has published nearly 100 papers and given > 200 oral presentations, many of them invited.
