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Emerging Technologies for Observation of Air Pollution (2nd Edition)
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Emerging Technologies for Observation of Air Pollution (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 742

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Schäfer

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Interests: air quality; air pollutants; measurement techniques; meteorological influences; atmospheric data analyses
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Dr. Nuria Castell

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Urban Environment and Industry Department, NILU—Norwegian Institution for Air Research, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Interests: environmental monitoring; urban sustainability; citizen science; low-cost sensor technology; co-creation; urban living labs; transdisciplinary research
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Sustainability Engineering Laboratory, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the second volume in a series of publications dedicated to “Emerging Technologies for Observation of Air Pollution” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/EQ5K6Z2085).

The problem of poor air quality still influences inhabitant’s life in all cities of the globe. During growing urbanization scientific research shows origin of air pollution from local scales and from regional and global scales including interactions with climate protection measures. Additionally, the public awareness is growing to improve management and assessment strategies and effective control policies for reducing the health impact of air pollution.

The focus of this Special Issue is on new research contributions on developments in observation techniques and data operation algorithms which enable personal air pollution exposure determination, as well as new conclusions about sources of air pollutants and emission reduction measures.  New research results about spatially complete information on air pollutants, about urban air quality observations by smart air quality networks, as well as corresponding near-real time numerical simulations at the small scale are ideal contributions to this Special Issue.

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Schäfer
Dr. Nuria Castell
Dr. Georgios Tsegas
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Keywords

  • atmospheric observations
  • urban air quality
  • sensors and measurements
  • crowd sourcing
  • numerical simulations and modeling

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Evaluating the Spatial Coverage of Air Quality Monitoring Stations Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
by Giannis Ioannidis, Paul Tremper, Chaofan Li, Till Riedel, Nikolaos Rapkos, Christos Boikos and Leonidas Ntziachristos
Atmosphere 2025, 16(3), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16030326 - 12 Mar 2025
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Densely populated urban areas often experience poor air quality due to high levels of anthropogenic emissions. The population is frequently exposed to harmful gaseous and particulate pollutants, which are directly linked to various health issues, including respiratory diseases. Accurately assessing and predicting pollutant [...] Read more.
Densely populated urban areas often experience poor air quality due to high levels of anthropogenic emissions. The population is frequently exposed to harmful gaseous and particulate pollutants, which are directly linked to various health issues, including respiratory diseases. Accurately assessing and predicting pollutant concentrations within urban areas is therefore crucial. This study developed a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model designed to capture turbulence effects that influence pollutant dispersion in urban environments. The focus was on key pollutants commonly associated with vehicular emissions, such as carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and particulate matter (PM). The model was applied to the city of Augsburg, Germany, to simulate pollutant behavior at a microscale level. The primary objectives were twofold: first, to accurately predict local pollutant concentrations and validate these predictions against measurement data; second, to evaluate the representativeness of air quality monitoring stations in reflecting the broader pollutant distribution in their vicinity. The approach presented here has demonstrated that when focusing on an area within a specific radius of an air quality station, the representativeness ranges between 10% and 16%. On the other hand, when assessing the representativeness across the street of deployment, the spatial coverage of the sensor ranges between 23% and 80%. This analysis highlights that air quality stations primarily capture pollution levels from high-activity areas directly across their deployment site, rather than reflecting conditions in nearby lower-activity zones. This approach ensures a more comprehensive understanding of urban air pollution dynamics and assesses the reliability of air quality (AQ) monitoring stations. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies for Observation of Air Pollution (2nd Edition))
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