Trade-off between urban heat island mitigation and air quality in urban valleys

JJ Henao, AM Rendón, JF Salazar - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
The number of studies on urban cooling strategies has been continuously growing. A
common premise is that urban heat island (UHI) mitigation has a net beneficial effect on …

Atmospheric stability characterization using the Pasquill method: A critical evaluation

JDW Kahl, HL Chapman - Atmospheric Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The Pasquill system was designed to describe dispersion conditions and was never
intended to be a “stand-alone” measure of stability, but it has nevertheless been used to …

Effect of atmospheric stability on air pollutant concentration and its generalization for real and idealized urban block models based on field observation data and wind …

T Hu, R Yoshie - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Near-surface atmospheric stability has a large influence on air pollutant diffusion in urban
canopy. However, few systematic and quantitative studies have analyzed the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the vertical and spatial extent of radon-based classification of the atmospheric mixing state and impacts on seasonal urban air quality

D Kikaj, SD Chambers, J Crawford, M Kobal… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A recently-developed radon-based method for combined classification of both diurnal and
synoptic timescale changes in the atmospheric mixing state is applied to 1-year of …

Application of magnetic susceptibility and heavy metal bioaccessibility to assessments of urban sandstorm contamination and health risks: Case studies from …

X Ma, D Xia, X Liu, H Liu, Y Fan, P Chen… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Direct ingestion of sandstorm particles is an important pathway in human exposure to heavy
metals. This study investigated the potential health risks of heavy metals transported in …

Factors affecting atmospheric radon concentration, human health

DE Tchorz-Trzeciakiewicz, M Kłos - Science of the total environment, 2017 - Elsevier
We studied the influence of terrain, geology and weather condition on radon concentration
in the atmosphere and occurrence of radon density currents. The survey was carried out in …

Environmental radon mapping in Sudan, orderly review

H Idriss, I Salih, AEA Elzain - Journal of Taibah University for …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this work is to build up a national database for radon in houses, soil, and water
and to demonstrate health risk due to radon inhalation and to construct radon map in the …

Biomass burning contribution to PM10 concentration in Rome (Italy): Seasonal, daily and two-hourly variations

C Perrino, L Tofful, S Dalla Torre, T Sargolini… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
The possibility of a relevant contribution of biomass burning for domestic heating to PM 10 in
the urban area of Rome was explored. The concentration of levoglucosan was determined …

Characterizing the state of the urban surface layer using radon‐222

SD Chambers, A Podstawczyńska… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Four years of summertime paired urban‐rural meteorological and radon observations in
central Poland are used to assess the relationship between atmospheric stability and urban …

Skill-testing chemical transport models across contrasting atmospheric mixing states using Radon-222

SD Chambers, EA Guérette, K Monk, AD Griffiths… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
We propose a new technique to prepare statistically-robust benchmarking data for
evaluating chemical transport model meteorology and air quality parameters within the …