This study reports a multi-year (2000-2009) aerosol characterization for metropolitan Tehran and surrounding areas using multiple datasets (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR), Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), Goddard Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART), and surface and upper air data from local station...

The Tehran metropolitan area is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes due the location of its active faults and dense population. Assessing probable damage a high magnitude earthquake on buildings facilities relies precise structural survey, which has an empirical basis depending historic ground motions. probability failure in discrete limits based different motions estimated by fragility curves....

This research is an attempt to explore the nature and characteristics of urban travel behavior in metropolitan area Iranian capital, Tehran. To this end, using perspectives 822 participants via a questionnaire survey, we assessed six major Travel Behavior Components (TBCs)—namely, mode, time, destination, frequency, choice, purpose—from lens five different sociodemographic characteristics—that ...

Vehicle exhaust is a major source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) in metropolitan cities. Popular community mode (buses and taxies) and about 2.4 million private cars are the main emission sources of air pollution in Tehran. A case survey has conducted to measure CO2 in four popular vehicles, bus, taxi, private car and motorcycle, which moved in the city with respectively 7800, 82358, 560...

The article reviews the activities of Joint Russian-Iranian Commission for Dialogue “Orthodoxy-Islam”. was established in 1997 with direct participation Chairman Department External Church Relations, Metropolitan Kirill Smolensk and Kaliningrad (the future His Holiness Patriarch Moscow All Russia). meetings were held a frequency about once every two years alternately Tehran. history past meetin...