Studies on the health effects of long-term average exposure to outdoor air pollution have played an important role in recent health impact assessments. Exposure assessment for epidemiological studies of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution remains a difficult challenge because of substantial small-scale spatial variation. Current approaches for assessing intra-urban air pollution contras...

BACKGROUND The Runcorn area, north-west England, contains many pollution sources, the health effects of which have been under discussion for over 100 years. Preliminary investigations revealed an excess risk of mortality from kidney disease in people living nearest to several point sources of pollution, using distance as a proxy for exposure. Ongoing epidemiological investigations into the effe...

BACKGROUND Biologically plausible mechanisms link traffic-related air pollution to metabolic disorders and potentially to obesity. Here we sought to determine whether traffic density and traffic-related air pollution were positively associated with growth in body mass index (BMI = kg/m2) in children aged 5-11 years. METHODS Participants were drawn from a prospective cohort of children who liv...

Air pollution is one of the major threats to environment in the present time. Increase in degree of urbanization is a major cause of this air pollution. Due to urbanization, vehicular activities are continuously increasing at a tremendous rate. Mobile or vehicular pollution is predominantly degrading the air quality worldwide. Thus, air quality management is necessary for dealing with this seve...

In the paper the problem of the real-time emission control is discussed, where the air quality forecast is based on the regional-scale model of air pollution transport. The problem formulation utilizes the optimal control technique for distributed parameter systems, which is integrated with the governing equations of air pollution dispersion process. The approach presented in the paper is sulfu...

CSE blew the lid on smog and smogmakers in 1996 in its book Slow murder: The deadly story of vehicular pollution in India. The study found that the problem of vehicular pollution in India was the result of a combination of outdated engine technology, poor fuel quality, defective transportation planning and bad maintenance of vehicles on road. CSE exposed that the government was indulging in the...

The thesis deals with the modeling of air pollution transportation and dispersion processes in the atmosphere, more precisely with the numerical approaches to solve such models. The modeling of air pollution has a great importance for prediction of the contaminations and it helps with understanding of the process and with elimination of its consequences. The models which are described by partia...

this paper examines the utility of the air pollution model (tapm) in simulating meteorology and dispersion of pm10 and wind data in order to assess the impacts of wind variability function on urban heat island for the day of 25, november, 2012 in karaj city that experienced severe degradation in air quality. drawing, skew-t diagrams, maps of surface pressure (500hp), omega (850hp) and atmospher...