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Hiren B. Soni, Jagruti Patel
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Clean air is the basic requirement of all living organisms. In recent times, due to population growth, urban sprawl, industrial development, and vehicular boom, the quality of air is deteriorating and being polluted. Pollutants of major public health con...
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Chunrong Jia and Stuart Batterman
Both the recent classification of naphthalene as a possible human carcinogen and its ubiquitous presence motivate this critical review of naphthalene?s sources and exposures. We evaluate the environmental literature on naphthalene published since 1990, d...
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Bernice Bediako and Deborah G. Sauder
Concerns about atmospheric ammonia have been expressed recently by some on the Lower Eastern Shore (LES) of Maryland, which lies between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean on the Delmarva peninsula. Agriculture, seafood and tourism are responsible...
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Dafydd Phillips
South Korea is a signatory of the Paris Agreement and has announced its aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. However, South Korea?s current policy trajectory is not compatible with maintaining a global temperature rise below 2 °C. Climate change has...
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P. BALASHANMUGAM, V. NEHRUKUMAR
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KOEN DE RIDDER,PETER VIAENE,KAREN VAN DE VEL,OLIVIER BRASSEUR,ANNE CHEYMOL,FRANS FIERENS
Pág. 403 - 410
A simple numerical experiment to evaluate the influence of model resolution on estimates of ambient air quality and associated human exposure is presented. This is done based on annual mean NO2 concentration fields for the agglomeration of Brussels and s...
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Marie Lynn Miranda, Sharon E. Edwards, Martha H. Keating and Christopher J. Paul
This paper assesses whether the Clean Air Act and its Amendments have been equally successful in ensuring the right to healthful air quality in both advantaged and disadvantaged communities in the United States. Using a method to rank air quality establi...
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Satoru Chatani, Kazuyo Yamaji, Tatsuya Sakurai, Syuichi Itahashi, Hikari Shimadera, Kyo Kitayama and Hiroshi Hayami
The inter-comparison of regional air quality models is an effective way to understand uncertainty in ambient pollutant concentrations simulated using various model configurations, as well as to find ways to improve model performance. Based on the outcome...
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Matthaios Santamouris and Paul Osmond
Urban vegetation provides undeniable benefits to urban climate, health, thermal comfort and environmental quality of cities and represents one of the most considered urban heat mitigation measures. Despite the plethora of available scientific information...
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Sharadia Dey,Srimanta Gupta,Arun Chakraborty,Precious Sibanda
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Monitoring and analyses of various air pollutants like particulate matter (PM10), sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO) and ammonia (NH3), as well as meteorological parameters (temperature, humidity, wind speed a...
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Kuang Xiao, Yuku Wang, Guang Wu, Bin Fu and Yuanyuan Zhu
Most cities in China are experiencing severe air pollution due to rapid economic development and accelerated urbanization. Long-term air pollution data with high temporal and spatial resolutions are needed to support research into physical and chemical p...
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Weicong Fu, Ziru Chen, Zhipeng Zhu, Qunyue Liu, Jinda Qi, Emily Dang, Minhua Wang and Jianwen Dong
Millions of pulmonary diseases, respiratory diseases, and premature deaths are caused by poor ambient air quality in developing countries, especially in China. A proven indicator of ambient air quality, atmospheric visibility (AV), has displayed continuo...
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Hao Zhang, Hong Li, Qingzhu Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Weiqi Zhang, Xuezhong Wang, Fang Bi, Fahe Chai, Jian Gao, Lingshuo Meng, Ting Yang, Yizhen Chen, Qi Cheng and Fenmei Xia
Atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurement was carried out using gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) technique (Airmo VOCs online analyzer) in a typical urban area in Beijing from April 2014 to January 2015. Ambient level...
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Md. Senaul Haque and R. B. Singh
Urban air quality in most megacities has been found to be critical and Kolkata Metropolitan City is no exception to this. An analysis of ambient air quality in Kolkata was done by applying the Exceedance Factor (EF) method, where the presence of listed p...
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Md. Senaul Haque and R. B. Singh
Urban air quality in most megacities has been found to be critical and Kolkata Metropolitan City is no exception to this. An analysis of ambient air quality in Kolkata was done by applying the Exceedance Factor (EF) method, where the presence of listed p...
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Susan Collet, Toru Kidokoro, Prakash Karamchandani and Tejas Shah
Many areas of the United States are working toward achieving the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) attainment level. The objective of this study was to develop future-year (2030) volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (VOC-...
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Marta García Vivanco,Manuel Santiago,Miguel Sánchez,Mª Ángeles Clavero,Esther Borrás,Milagros Ródenas,Francisco Alacreu,M. Vázquez,E. Clemente,R. Porras,A. Muñoz,Ariel Stein
Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) constitute a significant fraction of the atmospheric particulate matter. Theses particles are formed as a consequence of the oxidation reaction of certain organic gases that leads to the formation of low-volatility compou...
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N.C. Nkosi, R.P. Burger, N.R. Matandirotya , C. Pauw, S.J. Piketh
Domestic solid fuel combustion remains a key contributor to indoor and ambient air pollution in low-income settlements. Understanding solid-fuel cost perceptions and burning patterns variability is required for developing sustainable energy policies and ...
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Ali Al-Hemoud, Janvier Gasana, Abdullah N. Al-Dabbous, Ahmad Al-Shatti and Ahmad Al-Khayat
Ambient air pollution in terms of fine and coarse particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) has been shown to increase adult and infant mortalities. Most studies have estimated the risk of mortalities through attributable proportions and number of excess cases...
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Syuichi Itahashi, Kazuyo Yamaji, Satoru Chatani, Kunihiro Hisatsune, Shinji Saito and Hiroshi Hayami
Sulfate aerosol (SO42−) is a major component of particulate matter in Japan. The Japanese model intercomparison study, J-STREAM, found that although SO42− is well captured by models, it is underestimated during winter. In the first phase of J...
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