Source Attribution of Air Pollution in Europe
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 1005
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric chemistry; chemistry transport modelling; air pollution; greenhouse gases; emission modelling; source apportionment
Interests: particulate matter; nitrogen; ozone; chemistry transport modeling; air quality; source attribution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To design effective mitigation strategies to reduce air pollution exposure in Europe, a thorough understanding of the origin of air pollutants is required. It is well known that the impacts of both source sectors and source regions may vary largely between different locations and moments in time depending on meteorological conditions and the characteristics of local and upwind emission sources. Hence, obtaining a comprehensive quantification of the contributions of source sectors and source regions to concentration levels of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ozone and other (emerging) air pollutants is a difficult task.
This Special Issue aims to collect a body of original research on source attribution studies in Europe. We welcome dedicated experimental studies that elucidate the contributions of single-source types based on specific source tracers or a set of sources using receptor modelling. Furthermore, we welcome model-based studies that quantify—as well as show improvements in such calculations—source contributions to air pollution levels. New modelling approaches employ different labelling and perturbation techniques with variable strengths and weaknesses. Relevant contributions include those from, for e.g., natural sources, anthropogenic source sectors, specific source regions, and local and transboundary contributions. Assessments may analyze and compare different time horizons, for e.g., annual means, seasonal variability, and/or episodes. The evaluation and comparison of different source attribution approaches is a topic of particular interest.
Dr. Sabine Banzhaf
Prof. Dr. Martijn Schaap
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- source attribution
- Europe
- receptor modelling
- labelling
- particulate matter
- ozone
- nitrogen oxides