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Determination Of Traffic Emissions From Pollution Measurements And Dispersion Modelling

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

36

Pages

6

Published

1999

Size

398 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/EURO991572

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Ole Hertel, Ruwim Berkowicz, Finn Palmgren, Eugene Genikhovich, Alexander Ziv and Ekaterina lakovleva

Abstract

Determination of Traffic Emissions from Pollution Measurements and Dispersion Modelling A contribution to subproject SATURN Ole Hertel\ Ruwim Berkowicz*, Finn Palmgren Eugene Genikhovich^, Alexander Ziv^ and Ekaterina lakovleva^ ^National Environmental Research Institute, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark ^Main Geophysical Observatory, Kurbysheva, St. Petersburg, Russia Introduction In most European cities emissions from road traffic has become the most important source of local air pollution. Monitoring programmes are in operation in most larger European cities with the aim of following the development in local air quality and studying the impact of various pollution regulations. The later is not straightforward, since pollution levels do not only depend on the emissions but also on factors like street configuration and meteorological conditions. The relationship betw

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