Roadside vegetation barrier designs to mitigate near-road air pollution impacts

Z Tong, RW Baldauf, V Isakov, P Deshmukh… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
With increasing evidence that exposures to air pollution near large roadways increases risks
of a number of adverse human health effects, identifying methods to reduce these exposures …

Impact of roadside conifers vegetation growth on air pollution mitigation

K Hashad, B Yang, J Gallagher, R Baldauf… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract As a Nature-Based Solution, roadside green infrastructure (also known as roadside
barriers) can potentially mitigate traffic-related air pollution by increasing dispersion and …

Exploration of effects of a vegetation barrier on particle size distributions in a near-road environment

JT Steffens, YJ Wang, KM Zhang - Atmospheric Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Roadside vegetation barriers have been suggested as a potential mitigation strategy for
near-road air pollution. However, there is still a lack of mechanistic understanding of how …

Urban air quality simulation in a high-rise building area using a CFD model coupled with mesoscale meteorological and chemistry-transport models

KH Kwak, JJ Baik, YH Ryu, SH Lee - Atmospheric Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
An integrated urban air quality modeling system is established by coupling a computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) model with mesoscale meteorological and chemistry-transport models …

Estimation of on-road NO2 concentrations, NO2/NOX ratios, and related roadway gradients from near-road monitoring data

J Richmond-Bryant, R Chris Owen, S Graham… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2017 - Springer
This paper describes a new regression modeling approach to estimate on-road nitrogen
dioxide (NO 2) and oxides of nitrogen (NO X) concentrations and near-road spatial gradients …

Influence of solid noise barriers on near-road and on-road air quality

RW Baldauf, V Isakov, P Deshmukh, A Venkatram… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - Elsevier
Public health concerns regarding adverse health effects for populations spending significant
amounts of time near high traffic roadways has increased substantially in recent years …

Roadside NO2/NOx and primary NO2 from individual vehicles

P Brimblecombe, M Chu, CH Liu, Y Fu, P Wei… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traffic-derived nitrogen oxides (NO x) is a major component of kerbside pollution in large
cities and represent an important source of exposure and health risk to urban populations …

A CFD modeling study of the impacts of NOx and VOC emissions on reactive pollutant dispersion in and above a street canyon

KH Kwak, JJ Baik - Atmospheric environment, 2012 - Elsevier
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that includes the carbon bond mechanism IV
(CBM-IV) is developed and used to investigate reactive pollutant dispersion in and above a …

Diffusion simulation, health risks, ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation potential of gaseous pollutants from rural comprehensive waste treatment plant

J Ma, Z Chen, J Wang, Y Wang, L Li - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Comprehensive waste treatment plants (CWTPs) are significant sources of gaseous
pollutants such as odors, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) …

NO to NO2 conversion rate analysis and implications for dispersion model chemistry methods using Las Vegas, Nevada near-road field measurements

S Kimbrough, RC Owen, M Snyder… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
The nitrogen dioxide/oxides of nitrogen (NO 2/NO X) ratio is an important surrogate for NO to
NO 2 chemistry in dispersion models when estimating NO X impacts in a near-road …