Special Issue "Urban Air Quality Modelling"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023 | Viewed by 1597
Special Issue Editor

Interests: air quality modelling; clean air policies; large eddy simulation; street canyon; urban boundary layer processes; GIS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban air pollution has become the leading-order environmental risk for human health. As estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO), there are about 4.2 million annual premature deaths attributed to ambient air pollution. The WHO has updated its Air Quality Guidelines in September 2021, reflecting the fact that even exposure to lower levels of air pollutant can affect human health. It is important to better understand sources and processes of air pollutants and to develop effective clean air policies to reduce air pollution levels in the atmosphere.
High-resolution air quality modeling can simulate combined effects of emission sources, chemical and physical processes. As air quality modeling has predictive capability, it can be used to develop effective policies for clean air in urban environments.
We call for papers on the modeling of physicochemical processes, improved understanding of air quality dispersion, source apportionment, quantification of the impacts of air pollution control policies (or co-benefits of Net Zero policies) on air pollution levels, at a variety of scales ranging from street canyon to neighborhood and city scales.
Dr. Jian Zhong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air quality modeling
- emission sources
- physicochemical processes
- dispersion
- clean air policies
- net zero policies
- street canyon
- urban environments