Tropospheric Modelling and Emission Estimation

The end result of policy-related experimental and theoretical scientific work on the abatement of atmospheric emissions is a hierarchy of computer models that can be used to analyse and predict the behaviour of pollutants on urban, local regional and global scales. Such models are required to simulate an extremely complex natural situation in which a non-linear chemistry must be included together with the vagaries of the meteorology and the terrain. This book describes recent advances in the development and application of models on all scales, and in the techniques for the estimation and verification of emissions. It includes reviews of recent work together with detailed results and provides a useful picture of the field in a European context. The end result of policy-related experimental and theoretical scientific work on the abatement of atmospheric emissions is a hierarchy of computer models that can be used to analyse and predict the behaviour of pollutants on urban, local regional and global scales. Such models are required to simulate an extremely complex natural situation in which a non-linear chemistry must be included together with the vagaries of the meteorology and the terrain. To this must be added the uncertainties in the data provided to the model, particularly in the estimates of the emissions of pollutants and their precursors, both of anthropogenic and natural origin. This book describes recent advances in the development and application of models on all scales, and in the techniques for the estimation and verification of emissions. It includes reviews of recent work together with detailed results and so provides a useful picture of the field in a European context. This book is Volume 7 of the series on Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere.

1 Air Quality Models and Modelling in EUMAC: an Overview.- 2 Larger Scale Modelling of Air Pollutant Transport, Transformation and Deposition in Europe.- 3 Smaller Scale Modelling of Air Pollutant Transport, Transformation and Deposition in Europe.- 4 Cloud and Fog Effects and their Parameterisation in Regional Air Quality Models.- 5 EUMAC Publications: 1988-1995.- 6 GENEMIS: Assessment, Improvement, and Temporal and Spatial Disaggregation of European Emission Data.- 7 Temporal Disaggregation of Emission Data.- 8 Evaluation of Emissions and Emission Factors.- 9 Land Use Data.- 10 Emissions in Central and Eastern Europe.- 11 Generation of Emission Inventories.- 12 Power Plant Emission Factors.- 13 GENEMIS Publications: 1992-1995.- 14 An Overview of Global Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling.- 15 Individual Reports from GLOMAC Contributors.- 16 GLOMAC Publications: 1989-1996.