Internet Resources in Urban Air Pollution Modeling

General European Air Quality Research Centers US Air Quality Research Centers European Air Quality Research Projects Educational resources on meteorology Educational resources on air pollution Emission factors Pollutants, Health effects Air Quality Modeling . Online Dispersion Models . Quality assurance and Monitoring Devices . Passive Samplers . Real Time Air Pollution Data . Journals . Science funds and conferences . Compilations of air quality links . Other air quality related sites, consultants . Air quality management . Statistics . Postdoctoral research oppurtunities

Maintained by dr. Mindaugas ZICKUS (Curriculum)

e-mail: mindaugas.zickus@nt.gamta.lt

updated 2000.05.17

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1. Air quality related legislation, data centers

• European Union Legislation about Air Pollution
• European Environment Agency (EEA), Main Site
• Search for EEA documents 
• EEA reports
• State of the art of air pollution modeling (EEA, 1996)
• Evironmental legislation, EU Directives
• EIONET, European Environment Information and Observation NETwork
• PHARE topic link on air quality
• European Topic Centre on Air Quality
• European Topic Centre on Air Emmisions
• EURASAP, European association for the science of air pollution
• WHO, Charter on Transport, Environment and Health
• WHO Air quality guidelines
• National Air Quality Strategy and its Comments, UK
• UK National Air Quality Information Archive
• DETR, Department of the Environment,Transport and the Regions, UK
• Germany technical directives related to air pollution estimation (in deutsch)
• German federal legislation
• Umweltbundesamt, Germany
• Urban climate site, Germany
• UVP (EIA in Germany)
• Swiss Luftreinhalte-Verordnung
• French legislation
• EIA legislation in Canada
• EIA legislation in Poland, on emergency situations
• US EPA's regulations
• US federal rule air programms, other environmental rules

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2. European Air Quality Research Centers

• JRC, Joint Research Center
• ISPRA, Environment Institute of JRC
• ISIS, Institute for Systems, Informatics and Sefety of JRC
• NERI, National Environmental Research Institute, Danmark
• FMI, Finnish Meteorologial Institute
• DMI, Danish Meteorological Institute
• RISO, Risø National Laboratory, Danmark
• SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
• DNMI, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
• NILU, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
• KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Netherlands
• TNO, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands
• LCE, Lohmeyer Bureau, Germany,
• IFH, Institut of Hydromechanik, Germany
• MIHU, Meteorological institute University of Hamburg, Germany
• European Ozone Research coordinating unit
• IFT, Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Germany
• IFU, Fraunhofer-Institut für Atmosphärische Umweltforschung , Germany
• List of other Germany institutes
• Environmental Flow Research Centre, University of Surrey
• CERC, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants, UK
• Centre for atmospheric science,  UK
• University of Hertfordshire, UK
• VITO, Flemish institute for technological research, Belgium
• Institute of Geography, Switzerland
• Institute for atmospheric science, Switzerland
• Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du C.N.R.S.
• DAH, Equipe Dynamique de l'Atmosphere Habitée ECN France
• LHTEE, Aristotle university Thessaloniki, Greece
• NOA, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
• EREL, Environmental research laboratory, Greece
• Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
• CEAM, Mediterranean centre for enviornmnetal studies, Spain
• IMP, Institute of Meteorology and Physics, Austria
• WHO CC on Air quality management
• ZAMG, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria
• ISAO - CNR (FISBAT), Italy
• ISIATA, Institute for the study of atmospheric pollution and agrometeorology, Italy
• LMMA, Laboratory for Meteorology and Environmental Modelling, Italy
• Enviroware, environmantal research and consulting, Italy
• Environmental Aerodynamics Laboratory, Czech Republic
• MGO, Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia
• Ecolog, environmental research and consulting, Russia

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   3. US Air Quality Research Centers

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• NCEP, National Centers for Environmental Prediction
• NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• ARL, Air Resource Laboratory
• North Carolina Supercomputing Center
• EPA, Environmental Protection Agency structure
• NCERQA, National center for environmental research
• Search for EPA air related documents
• CEPPO, Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention office
• OAQPS, Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards
• OAR, Office of Air and Radiation
• AMTIC, Ambient Monitoring Technology Center
• ASMD, EPA's Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division
• SCRAM, Support Center for Regulatory Air Models
• TTN, Umbrella site for the air pollution topics
• NERL, National Exposure Research Laboratory
• CHIEF, ClearingHouse for Inventories and Emission Factors
• ORD, Office of Research and Development
• HPPC, High Performance Computing and Communications
• UATW, unified air toxics database
• EMC, Emission Measurement Center
• Links to US state air quality sites
• AMS, American meteorological society

Other Air Quality Research Resources

• CFD resources
• CSIRO, Australia
• Laboratoire de Climatologie et de Topoclimatologie, Université de Liege
• Institut d'astronomie et de géophysique Georges Lemaetre, research
• Data assimilation techniques
• Recent developments in hydrologic data assimilation
• Internet resources on data assimilation

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  4. European Air Quality Research Projects

• ISPRA projects
• Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes
• SATURN, urban scale source-receptor relationships, list of actions, reports, models
• TRAPOS, Optimisation of Modelling Methods for Traffic Pollution in Streets
• EUROTRAC, transport and chemical transformation of trace constituents in the troposphere over Europe
• COST, COST 715
• URBCAP, Urban canopy processes
• EMEP, Monitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe
• Harmonisation of Air Quality Measurements in Europe
• SIMTRAP, Dynamic Simulation of Traffic and Urban Air Quality
• ECOSIM, Urban Environmental Management
• IRENIE, improved Reporting of Enviromental information using EIONET
• EUROAIR, Studying Environmental problems in Europe by using air pollution models
• EURAD,   simulation of the dispersion of trace constituents in the atmosphere
• AIDAIR,Urban and Industrial Air Quality Assessment and Management
• ESCOMPTE, Field experiment to constraint models of atmospheric pollution and emission transport
• ESQUIF, Etude et Simulation de la QUalité de l'air en Ile de France
• ERCOFTAC, European Research Community On Flow, Turbulence And Combustion
• POLLUX, Experimental Real-Time Air Quality Forecasts for Paris
• APPETISE, Air pollution Episodes: Modelling Tools for Improved Smog Management
• BASTA, Investigation of Turbulent Structures in the Urban Boundary Layer
• Coupling of CORINAIR data to cost effective emission reduction
• Air Pollution and Environmental Impact Assessment
• OMNI, Air Pollution Modelling in Practice

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    5. Educational resources on meteorology

• Dictionary of meteoroloy
• WWW Virtual Library: Meteorology
• Micrometeorology course (login:vilnius password:oras)
• Meteorology - The Online Guides
• Lectures on Meteorology
• Educational Resources, University of Birmingham
• Temperature inversions
• Some basics meteorology
• Observation Weather Techniques
• Microscale and Mesoscale meteorology
• Cloud formation
• Meteorological Handbook
• Meteorology lectures
• Course - Atmospheric Sciences
• Bad Meteorology
• An explanation of vorticity
• Lectures on meteorology (free password)
• How the weather works
• Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) in DWD
• NWP Models
• NWP in UKMO
• NWP in FAQ
• Principles of NWP
• NWP
• Meteorological Glossaries
• Introduction to Weather Analysis and Forecasting
• Hydrostatic Stability
• Interpreting Weather-Satellite Images
• Radar and mesoscalemeteorology
• Friction velocity
• Meteo rologcial ap analysis
• Remote sensing
• Meteorological software
• Numerical models
• Introduction to GIS

Weather

• Europe Weather
• Belgium Meteoservice
• Top Karten
• READY AVN and MRF Europe
• Europe Weather Map
• NOAA sattelite maps from Dundee
• METEOSAT images from Nottingham
• European weather charts
• Europe weather
• MRF , ETA for EUROPE 
• ECMWF Long term forecast
• Meteo links
• EUMETNET

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6. Educational resources on air pollution

• Air Quality Engineering
• Air Chemistry & Pollution
• Air Quality Meteorology
• Air Quality Modeling
• Environmental Models
• Atmospheric physics and air pollution modelling (27 lectures)
• Air pollution research, workbooks
• Hand written material
• Air pollution and meteorology course in slides
• Lecture slides
• Air pollution course
• Stack Emission Modelling
• Lectures (in German)
• Course - EKMA/OZIP Modeling System
• A Brief Outline of Air Pollution
• Atmospheric Environment
• Environmental course
• Uncertainty Analysis of Transport-Transformation Models
• Influence of meteorogical parameters on air pollution and its forecast
• Lecture notes
• Some philosophy
• Werkzeuge zur numerischen Modellierung
• Lectures in French
• Models To Study Transport and Transformation of Atmosphere Trace Contaminants
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality Glossary
• How to convert ppm to microgramms
• Fire emissions modelling (in German)
• Traffic-related Air Pollution, Air in Berlin
• Some articles about air quality modeling and management
• Air Pollution Training Institute
• Neural Networks and Contaminant Transport
• PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION OF THE ISCST3 GAUSSIAN MODEL FOR POLLUTANTS TRANSPORT SIMULATION
• Air quality Interactive Tutorial

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   7. Emission factors

US EPA

• EPA EFIG
• EPA CHIEF
• EPA EIIP
• EPA Unified Air Toxics
• EPA Emission Inventory
• Emission monitoring
• Landfill Emission Estimation model
• Mobile Source Air Toxic Emissions
• Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors
• Factor Information Retrieval Data System
• Emission Estimation Software
• VOC emissions from tanks
• Office of Mobile Sources

European

• The UK Emission Factors Database
• A Guide to Transportation Emissions
• Atmospheric emissions inventories
• Mobile source emission factors
• Links to emission data sites in Europe
• GENEMIS, Generation and Evaluation of Emission Data
• Information über Abgase des Kraftfahrzeugverkehrs

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8. Pollutants, Health effects, Indoor air

• WHO Air quality guidelines
• On-line info on chemical compounds
• Air Quality and Health Effects
• Health effects of hazardous air pollutants
• Pollutants and Health Effects
• Particulate Matter effects
• Particulate Matter effects
• Exposure analysis
• British Occupational Hygiene Society
• US exposure models
• Related links
• Indoor air quality links
• Ergebnisse der Luftschadstoffmessungen in "Kindernasenhöhe"
• Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre
• ASHRAE, American society for heating, refrigerating and air conditioning engineers

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9. Air Quality Modeling

US

• US EPA Support Center For Regulatory Air Models
• ISC-PRIME, AERMOD, CALPUFF
• Download EPA's Most Used Air Quality Models
• EPA's Models-3
• Some usefull EPA model codes
• CALPUFF
• MM5
• RAMS, Desciption of RAMS
• CAMx-Comprehensive Air Quality Model
• PES
• CAMEO
• AERMOD, FAQ

European

• Model Database of the European Topic Centre on Air Quality
• Fluid dynamics portal
• COST 615 compiled list of models
• Germany urban air quality models
• Environmental   models
• Environmental models
• GAIA Model Base
• List of environmental models
• AIRVIRO-INDIC, case study
• Air quality models in Germany
• Ecosense (German)
• MITRAS (German)
• IMMIS (German)
• http://www.sfi-software.de/ (German)
• SATURN list of models
• AIRWARE, air quality management information system for urban and industrial applications
• ADMS of CERC, UK
• UK models
• Aeolius, air quality in street canyons (free), UK
• Comparison of AIRVIRO versus ADMS urban
• Modelling helpline, UK

Other modelling sites

• List of models
• Odour Dispersion Models
• Experimental Data for Validation of Micro Scale Dispersion Models
• Street canyon model validation data
• Error Propagation in Dispersion Models
• Fuzzy Meteorology
• Uncertainties in modeling
• Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• Statistical air pollution forcecast
• Navier-Stokes equations
• Some articles
• Some articles
• Some articles
• WWW Virtual Library Meteorology: Software
• Environment Related Computer Products
• All about mathematical modeling ;)
• Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77  On-Line!
• Air pollution software
• Atmospheric modeling and analysis page
• Accidental release flow rates from pressurized gas systems
• Articles
• PANACHE, a CFD model
• Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Resources
• Article: The role of ground-based remote sensing techniques in providing meteorological input to modern dispersion models
• Proceedings of Workshop on 'Urban Air Quality Management: Practice and Experience in EU and China'
• 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
• BUILDING DISCHARGES TO THE ENVIRONMENT
• Short Term Ozone Forecasting with a Eulerian Dispersion Model
• LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER SIMULATING, MODELING, MAPPING
• Spatial Analysis and Modelling Techniques

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10. Online Air Quality Models

• SCREEN3 online
• On-line Gaussian model
• On line model
• Another simple on-line model
• Online atmospheric pollution models (JavaScript applications)
• Toxflam
• Some applets
• Plume modeling
• On Line model
• Air pollution forecast
• Gaussian model
• Air quality forecast for London

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11. Quality assurance, Monitoring Devices and Manufacturers

Quality and standards

• ISO air quality standards
• EURACHEM: (usefull publications on quality methods)
• Harmonisation of Air Quality Measurements in Europe
• US EPA's Quality assurance documents
• Site's operators manual for automatic stations

Manufacturers

• EPA approved devices (pdf files)
• DOAS-OPSIS
• Monitor Labs
• Rupprecht & Patashnic
• Thermo Environmental Instruments
• Environnement S.A.
• Maihak
• Kayser Italia
• Biral
• Advanced Pollution Instruments (API)
• Bristol Industrial & Research Associates Limited (BIRAL)
• Casella Ltd.
• Clean Air Engineering (CAE)
• ESM Environmental Monitoring
• Engelhard
• Enviro Technology Services Plc.
• Foxboro
• Hnu Systems Ltd.
• Innova AirTech Instruments
• Leopold Siegrist
• MCI - Airtrack 2100
• MetOne
• Metrosonics
• SKC
• Nederman
• Pacwill Environmental
• Perkin - elmer
• Procall

Meteorological Devices

• Weather Mall
• Scientific Technology Inc.
• R. M. Young Company
• Campbell Scientific
• Climatronics Corp
• LI-COR Inc.
• Maximum Wind and Weather Instruments
• Vaisala
• PC Weather Products
• Met One Instruments
• Belfort Instrument Company
• Qualimetrics, Inc.
• Quorum Communications, Inc.

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12. Providers of passive samplers 

• Passam, Swiss
• Nilu, Norway
• CERAM, UK
• Gradko, UK
• Earth Resources Centre, UK
• TUV, Gernmany
• IVL, SwedenL
• Draeger, Germany

   

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  13. Real Time Air Pollution Data Around the World: 

• France, another page of air pollution in France
• Stockholm
• Cities of Norway
• Stuttgart, Stuttgart urban climate
• Germany sites
• Danmark - Sweden
• London
• Prague
• Cambridge
• Vilnius
• Michigan
• Gothenburg
• Riga
• Norrkoping
• Tallinn
• USA (clickable map)
• Los Angeles
• Pensylvania
• Berlin, information about air
• Australia
• Canada

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  14. Journals 

• Air quality management
• American Meteorology Society journals on-line
• Elsevier science publications
• Water, Air and Soil Poll.
• Boundary-Layer Meteorology
• J. Atmos. Chem.
• Science
• Nature

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    15. Science Funds and Confererences

• EU research
• 5 FP Environment
• COST
• CORDIS
• Training and mobility of researchers
• EU grants (in german)
• LRI projects
• GEF
• International funds
• NATO Science
• EUREKA
• National Research Center for Environment and Health
• Conferences on air pollution
• Third International Conference on Urban Air
  Quality, Loutraki, Greece 19-23 March 2001.
  Supported by IOP, NCSRD (Demokritos),
  IUAPPA and AWMA in colloboration with
  SATURN, TRAPOS and COST 715.
• Conferences related to air pollution

In Lithuania

• Lietuvos inovaciju centras
• 5FP
• INFO CENTER
• Mokslo ir technologiju parkas
• Mokslo fondas
• Eureka in Lithuania

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  16. Compilations of relevant links 

• Air quality links
• Air quality links
• Air quality links
• WWW Servers with Atmosphere and Climate Data and Information
• Urban air quality links
• Atmospheric science links
• Meteorology selected links
• Air Quality
• STAPPA/ALAPCO
• National Park Service
• Air Pollution Links
• Air links
• Links
• Hazardous Atmospheric Release Modeling
• Air Quality Links
• Fluid Dynamics Links
• french sites, another
• Mostly CFD links
• Links to  Atmospheric Chemistry pages
• Air pollution
• Air quality resources
• Environment Chemistry Resources on the Internet
• Links to environmental software
• FAQ's

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17. Other air quality related sites, consultants

• Urban climate sites
• AEA Technology plc
• INERIS, France
• Cooper and Caulcoot Ltd.
• Pollution prevention
• Aria Tech. (France)
• Centre for Applied Geochemistry and Environmental Studies
• The University of Birmingham
• British meteorological data centre
• Institut für Atmosphärische Chemi
• Urban air pollution
• Huxley School
• Environmental consultants
• Universität Paderborn
• ARIA Technologies
• University Utrecht
• Umweltmeteorologie
• Klimatologie
• Unit conversions, Unit dictionary
• Principal component analysis
• Articles on data assimilation
• ACRI, CFD
• Comparison of numerical and physical modeling approaches, in German
• Urban climate website
• Breeze software
• Physical and Environmental Science and Engineering Job Search Resources
• Data Manipulation and Analysis Tools
• North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC) projects
• Oregon DEQ's Air Quality Modeling Homepage
• Ivu-Umwelt, IMMIS
• Atmospheric chemistry, University of Leeds
• List of Dispersion Models and Consultants
• Britanica online by ARIC
• Times series modelling
• ENCOCO (Germany)
• Petersen-Kade (Germany)
• Umwelt - Online (Germany)
• Atmoterm (Poland)
• VERSAR (USA)
• Sopwhare group
• France - Environment
• Air pollution control resources
• List of Air quality consultants
• Washington State University

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18. Air quality management

• Local Air Quality Management Guidance, UK
• Air quality management guidance notes,  UK
• Air and Environmental Quality Research Reports, UK
• Air quality helpdesks, UK
• Journal of Air quality management
• AQM resources, UK
• AIRPARIF, France
• Bayerisches landesamt fur umweltschutz, Germany
• US:
• Colorado Modeling Guideline for Air Quality Permits
• STAPPA/ALAPCO State Agencies Link Page
• Texas, Guidance Documents on air quality modeling
• Michigan
• Alaska
• Permit modeling guidance
• California Air Resources Board
• Louisiana DEQ Air Monitoring Operations Homepage
• New Jersey DEP Bureau of Air Monitoring Page
• Ohio EPA Department of Air Pollution Control Air Monitoring Homepage
• Pennsylvania DEP Ambient Air Monitoring Page
• San Diego County Air Pollution Control District Ambient Air Page
• Utah Division of Air Quality Air Monitoring Center Homepage
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Local Agencies Link Page
• Canada, example
• Risk Assessment Information System

   

  19. Statistics

• Statistical forecasting
• Biomedical Time Series Analysis
• Statistics textbook
• Statistical temperature forecast
• Statistical modeling, uncertainty
• Forecasting tools, techniques
• On signal processing
• Time Series Analysis and Prediction
• Times series analysis
• Biostatisctics links
• Tutorial on statistical data analysis
• Neural Networks Research Center
• Neural Network FAQ
• NeuroNet
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Directory
• Matlab
  Free mathematical libraries
  Growing Cell Structure Visualisation Toolbox
  Netlab
  Data visualization toolbox
  k-means clustering package
  Correlation Matrix Pseudocolor Map Function
  GNU Octave - a free Matlab clone
• Data mining software
• SOM example, toolbox

20. Postdoctoral research oppurtunities

• Jobs in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
• Jobs in atmospheric science
• Post-Docs.com
• Cos funded positions
• Post-doc links
• Postdoctoral resources
• Phds.org
• Postdoctoral Fellowships in Complex Systems Studies
• Science carriers
• Humboldt Research Fellowships for Foreign Post-docs
• Met-Jobs
• MetJobs
• UK jobs
• sci.research.postdoc
• UCAR
• french list, another
• job links
• Atmosphere research jobs mail archive
• Environmental jobs
• Employment Opportunities in Science and Technology

  In France:

  • Science Emplois - Association Bernard Gregory
  • ABG\Concours d'enseignants-chercheurs
  • http://garp.univ-bpclermont.fr/guilde/
  • Les Archives des listes HotDocs
  • Guide de l'Etudiant-Chercheur
  • Confederation des Etudiants-Chercheurs

• EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES IN THE EARTH, ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES