Daily Dose of Air Pollution: April 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024

Journal Article - Back-trajectory analyses for evaluating the transboundary transport effect to the aerosol pollution in South Korea

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Journal Article - First Top-Down Diurnal Updates to NOx Emissions Inventory in Asia Informed by the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) Tropospheric NO2 Columns

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Journal Article - Comprehensive analysis of long-term trends, meteorological influences, and ozone formation sensitivity in the Jakarta Greater Area

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Journal Article - Large methane mitigation potential through prioritized closure of gas-rich coal mines

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Journal Article - Data gaps in transport behavior are bottleneck for tracking progress towards healthy sustainable transport in European cities

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Journal Article - A better representation of VOC chemistry in WRF-Chem and its impact on ozone over Los Angeles

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Journal Article - MIXv2: a long-term mosaic emission inventory for Asia (2010–2017)

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Journal Article - Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Journal Article - Lethal dust storms blanket Asia every spring — now AI could help predict them

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Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi 2015-2023

For more details and access to the data as a CSV file visit India NCAP information repository

An MS Excel Based Air Quality Index (AQI) Calculator - 7 Methodologies from USA, EU, UK, India, China, South Korea and Singapore

Version (01) calculates AQI for one time data using 7 methodologies - USA, EU, UK, India, China, South Korea, and Singapore

Download the calculator here and see the video for instructions

Version (02) calculates AQI for a large dataset using 7 methodologies - USA, EU, UK, India, China, South Korea, and Singapore, and presents a comparisons chart.

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Journal Article - Why we should have a universal air quality index?

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Air Quality Index (AQI) in Indian Cities 2015-2023

For more details and access to the data as a CSV file visit India NCAP information repository

Journal Article - Identifying the geospatial relationship of surface ozone pollution in China: Implications for key pollution control regions

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Journal Article - Hotspot driven air pollution during crop residue burning season in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, India

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Journal Article - Spatiotemporal variations in the association between PM2.5 and ozone in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Impacts of meteorological and emissions factors

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Journal Article - Air quality modeling intercomparison and multi-scale ensemble chain for Latin America

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Journal Article - Impact of battery swapping in the passenger sector: EV adoption, emissions, and energy mix

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Journal Article - Diurnal variation of air pollutants and their relationship with land surface temperature in Bengaluru and Hyderabad cities of India

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Primer on What is Pollution Source Apportionment

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Resource Material - Air Quality Modelling Tools and Emission Calculators

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Tools - Calculate and Compare Air Quality Index (AQI) Using Methodologies from 7 Countries

Version (01) calculates AQI for one time data using 7 methodologies - USA, EU, UK, India, China, South Korea, and Singapore

Download the calculator here and see the video for instructions.

Version (02) calculates AQI for a large dataset using 7 methodologies - USA, EU, UK, India, China, South Korea, and Singapore, and presents a comparisons chart.

Download the calculator here and see the video for instructions

Journal Article - PM2.5 air pollution trends and patterns in Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Journal Article - Assessing the tradeoffs in emissions, air quality and health benefits from excess power generation due to climate-related policies for the transportation sector

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Journal Article - "This smoke will finish us": impacts of cooking with polluting fuels on air quality, health and education in three schools in Nairobi, Kenya

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Journal Article - Heat Stress in India: A Review

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Journal Article - Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States

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Journal Article - Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

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Journal Article - SO2 emissions and lifetimes derived from TROPOMI observations over India using a flux-divergence method

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Journal Article - Quantifying Urban Daily Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Satellite Observations

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Friday, April 26, 2024

Journal Article - Fugitive road dust particulate matter emission inventory for India: A field campaign in 32 Indian cities

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Data Resource: Global Carbon Budget Archive

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Journal Article - Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere

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Journal Article - Characteristic, source apportionment and effect of photochemical loss of ambient VOCs in an emerging megacity of Central China

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journal Article - aqpet — An R package for air quality policy evaluation

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Journal Article - Challenges and perspectives of air pollution control in China

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Journal Article - First evaluation of the GEMS formaldehyde product against TROPOMI and ground-based column measurements during the in-orbit test period

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Journal Article - Unrecognized volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds from brake wear

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Journal Article - Urban methane emission monitoring across North America using TROPOMI data: an analytical inversion approach

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Journal Article - The impact of aerosol-radiation interaction and heterogeneous chemistry on the winter decreasing PM2.5 and increasing O3 in Eastern China 2014–2020

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Journal Article - Closing Access Streets to Schools for Vehicular Traffic—Does It Affect the Air Quality?

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Journal Article - CO anthropogenic emissions in Europe from 2011 to 2021: insights from Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite data

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Journal Article - Observed improvement in air quality in Delhi during 2011–2021: Impact of mitigation measures

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Journal Article - Long-term exposure to ambient ozone and adult-onset asthma: A prospective cohort study

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Journal Article - Atmospheric chemistry regimes in intercontinental air traffic corridors: Ozone versus NOx sensitivity

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Journal Article - Spatial model for daily air quality high resolution estimation

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Journal Article - Synergistic PM2.5 and O3 control to address the emerging global PM2.5-O3 compound pollution challenges

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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Journal Article - Investigating the Interaction Between Transboundary Haze and Planetary Boundary Layer in Singapore

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Journal Article - Preindustrial to present-day changes in atmospheric carbon monoxide: agreements and gaps between ice archives and global model reconstructions

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Journal Article - Projecting Global Mercury Emissions and Deposition Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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Journal Article - Characteristics of Daytime-And-Nighttime AOD Differences Over China: A Perspective From CALIOP Satellite Observations and GEOS-Chem Model Simulations

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Journal Article - Developing a practical tool to evaluate the cost and benefit of PM2.5 pollution control measures on air quality improvement in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Journal Article - How does the impact of a two-stage air pollution control policy on air quality different? Evidence from 258 cities in China

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Journal Article - From Kitchen to Air: Emissions from India’s Thriving Restaurant Food Service Sector

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Journal Article - Air pollution changes due to COVID-19 lockdowns and attributable mortality changes in four countries

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Journal Article - Ozone variability, its formation potential and crops losses in the himalayan foothills

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Journal Article - Development of emission inventory for air quality assessment and mitigation strategies over most populous Indian megacity, Mumbai

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Journal Article - An investigation into atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) processes in South Korea

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Journal Article - Quantification and source apportionment of atmospheric trace gases over Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Journal Article - Ammonia emission estimates using CrIS satellite observations over Europe

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Friday, April 19, 2024

Journal Article - Environmental, Health, and Economic Co-Benefits Assessment of the Electrification of Public Transport in Delhi (India)

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Journal Article - Characterization and sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during 2022 summer ozone pollution control in Shanghai, China

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Journal Article - Impacts of open biomass burning in Southeast Asia on atmospheric PM2.5 concentrations over south China from 2009 to 2018

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Journal Article - Enabling the Shift to Electric Auto-Rickshaws: A Guidebook for Electrification of Auto-rickshaw Fleets in Indian Cities

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Journal Article - Sensitivity of air quality to vehicle ammonia emissions in the United States

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Journal Article - O3 Sensitivity to NOx and VOC During RECAP-CA: Implication for Emissions Control Strategies

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Journal Article - Mitigating air pollution benefits multiple sustainable development goals in China

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Journal Article - Household Air Pollution Interventions to Improve Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Journal Article - Greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles in Ireland

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Video (Hindi) - स्वच्छ हवा, स्वस्थ बच्चे

Video - Cleaner Air, Healthier Children

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Journal Article - Improvement of Surface PM2.5 Diurnal Variation Simulations in East Africa for the MAIA Satellite Mission

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Video - Effect of Air Pollutants on Health

Video - Lecture 03: Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health

Video - Health Impacts of Pollution

Journal Article - Large transboundary health impact of Arctic wildfire smoke

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Journal Article - The Relationship between Indoor and Outdoor Fine Particulate Matter in a High-Rise Building in Chicago Monitored by PurpleAir Sensors

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Journal Article - Impact of population and primary energy consumption on air pollutants of 67 countries

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Journal Article - How do taxi drivers expose to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in a Chinese megacity

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Journal Article - Comparing the characteristics of ambient fine particle pollution episodes across South Asian cities

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Journal Article - Evaluation of long-term ozone simulations from seven regional air quality models and their ensemble

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Journal Article - CityDelta: A model intercomparison study to explore the impact of emission reductions in European cities in 2010

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Journal Article - Sensitivity of air quality model responses to emission changes: comparison of results based on four EU inventories through FAIRMODE benchmarking methodology

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Journal Article - CHIMERE 2013: a model for regional atmospheric composition modelling

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Journal Article - CHIMERE-2017: from urban to hemispheric chemistry-transport modeling

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Journal Article - SHERPA-Cloud: An open-source online model to simulate air quality management policies in Europe

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Journal Article - A global re-analysis of regionally resolved emissions and atmospheric mole fractions of SF6 for the period 2005–2021

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Journal Article - Role of air stagnation in determining daily average PM2.5 concentrations in areas with significant impact of long-range transport

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Journal Article - Combining the Emission Preprocessor HERMES with the Chemical Transport Model TM5-MP

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Journal Article - Simulation and Forecasting Study on the Influential Factors of PM2.5 Related to Energy Consumption in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region

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Journal Article - Chemical composition and origins of PM2.5 in Chiang Mai (Thailand) by integrated source apportionment and potential source areas

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Journal Article - Diagnosing ozone–NOx–VOC–aerosol sensitivity and uncovering causes of urban–nonurban discrepancies in Shandong, China, using transformer-based estimations

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Journal Article - Impact of improved representation of VOC emissions and production of NOx reservoirs on modeled urban ozone production

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Journal Article - A dynamical process-based model AMmonia–CLIMate v1.0 (AMCLIM v1.0) for quantifying global agricultural ammonia emissions – Part 1: Land module for simulating emissions from synthetic fertilizer use

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Journal Article - Addressing air quality challenges: Comparative analysis of Barcelona, Venezuela, and Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Journal Article - Sharp increase in Saharan dust intrusions over the western Euro-Mediterranean in February–March 2020–2022 and associated atmospheric circulation

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Journal Article - An overview of outdoor low-cost gas-phase air quality sensor deployments: current efforts, trends, and limitations

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Journal Article - Air pollution perception for air quality management: A systematic review exploring research themes and future perspectives

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Journal Article - A review on air–sea exchange of reactive trace gases over the northern Indian Ocean

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Journal Article - A monthly gridded burned area database of national wildland fire data

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Journal Article - PM2.5 and O3 in an Enclosed Basin, the Guanzhong Basin of Northern China: Insights into Distributions, Appointment Sources, and Transport Pathways

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Journal Article - Mortality Burden Due to Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter in Korea

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Journal Article - From powerpoint to powerplant: evaluating the impact of the U.S.-China Sunnylands commitment to tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030

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Journal Article - Factors influencing the adoption of zero-emission buses: A review-based framework

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Journal Article - A review of household and industrial anaerobic digestion in Asia: Biogas development and safety incidents

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Journal Article - Analyzing policy interventions to stimulate suitable energy sources for the most polluted states of India

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Journal Article - Effects of emission reductions on major anthropogenic aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions in East Asia in winter during 2007–2020

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Journal Article - Hierarchical driving factors of ammonia emissions from cropland in China

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Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Journal Article - Impacts of urban emissions and air quality in São Paulo State, Brazil

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Journal Article - Challenges in Simulating Prevailing Fog Types Over Urban Region of Delhi

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Sunday, April 07, 2024

Journal Article - The African Regional Greenhouse Gases Budget (2010–2019)

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Journal Article - Global Spatial Variation in the PM2.5 to AOD Relationship Strongly Influenced by Aerosol Composition

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Resource: What are emissions factors? And where can I find them? (by GHGI)

If you’re a greenhouse gas (GHG) expert, you know emission factors (EFs) are an essential input to your work in carbon accounting. While performing emissions calculations you have surely experienced the challenge of locating and identifying the most representative and up-to-date EF for your work. This blog is here to help you the next time you begin this task by identifying the major EF databases available for your use. But first, let’s cover the basics…what is an emission factor?

Full article and resource links are here (by GHG Institute)