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[Citation: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5000911]
Air pollution is an escalating issue in cities worldwide, with direct impacts on public health.
While many numerical tools exist to address this problem, there is a growing need for practical, scalable, and accessible modeling training resources, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This publication is specifically designed to support those training needs and empower city managers, regulators, practitioners, academics, and citizen groups.
Whether you are a beginner or seeking to refresh your knowledge, this resource provides a fundamental understanding of the key themes associated with air pollution modeling.
Table of Themes
- Air pollution modeling
- Boundary and initial conditions
- Chemical transport models
- Deposition rates
- Emission inventories
- Forecasting air quality
- Geospatial information systems
- Health (exposure) impacts modeling
- Inversion (mixing) heights
- J-rates and K-rates (chemical mechanisms)
- Land-use regression (LUR) models
- Monitoring data
- Natural emission inventories
- Optimization of action plans
- Projections and scenario analysis
- Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC)
- Reduced complexity models
- Source apportionment
- Trajectory analysis
- Utilities
- Validation of models
- Weather research forecasting (WRF) model
- XYZ dimensions (airsheds, nesting, and model layer heights)
“Everything you need to know to apply for a job working at the crossroad of policy and research” — Zbigniew Klimont, IIASA, Austria
“It covers so many key topics in modelling and explains them all really well. It is a great resource for my teaching on atmospheric modeling” — Rebecca Garland, University of Pretoria, South Africa
“A great resource for those starting in air quality modeling, providing clear explanations of key atmospheric science concepts as well. Ideal for PhD students and early-career researchers looking to build their modeling skills. Highly recommended” — Shahzad Gani, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
“A truly priceless resource for scholars and practitioners working on urban air pollution across the world” — Madhav Badami, McGill University, Canada
“Starts with a question to get readers focused. I will surely recommend to all my students” — Jun Wang, University of Iowa, USA
All the training material including primers, presentations, plug and play tools, benchmarking notes, instructional videos and more is available @ https://urbanemissions.info/tools.
Our working papers describe case studies where we applied the SIM-air family of tools, document general notes on emissions and pollution modeling and present our reviews on various topics related to air pollution analysis.