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Source apportionment of air pollution in European urban areas: Lessons from the ClairCity project

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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
卷 320, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115899

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Air pollution; Air quality modelling; Source apportionment; Urban areas

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  1. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [689 289]
  2. FCT/MCTES [SFRH/BD/137999/2018, 2020.00622.CEECIND, UIDB/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020+LA/P/0094/2020]
  3. FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement
  4. FEDER, within Compete 2020

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Air pollution has become a major threat to human health, with acute episodes increasing in many cities worldwide. This study used source apportionment modelling to quantify the contributions of different emission sources to air pollution in six European urban areas. The results showed that road transport is the main contributor to NO2 concentrations, while transboundary transport plays a major role in PM concentrations.
Air pollution has become a major threat to human health in the last decades, with an increase of acute air pollution episodes in many cities worldwide. Source apportionment modelling provides valuable information on the contribution from different emission source sectors and source regions to distinct air pollutants concentra-tions. In this study, the CAMx model, with its PSAT tool, was applied to quantify the contribution of multiple source areas, categories and pollutant types to ambient air pollution, namely to PM and NO2 concentrations, over six European urban areas: Bristol (United Kingdom), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Liguria Region (Italy), Sosnowiec (Poland) and Aveiro Region (Portugal). Results indicate overall higher annual NO2 and PM concentrations located in the urban centres of the case studies. A comparison between the different areas showed that Liguria is the region with highest NO2 annual mean concentrations, while Ljubljana, Liguria Region and Sosnowiec are the case studies with the highest PM annual mean concentrations. The annual average contributions denote a major influence from road transport to NO2 concentrations, with up to 50%, except in Aveiro region, where road transport presents a lower contribution to NO2 concentrations, and the greatest contributor is the industrial combustion and processes sector with 45%. These results indicate a negligible contribution of the transboundary transport to NO2 concentrations, highlighting the relevance of local sources, while for PM concentrations the transboundary transport is the major contributor. The results highlight the relevance of long-range transport of PM across Europe. The transboundary transport reduces its importance during winter, when residential and commercial combustion increases its contribution. In the case of the Aveiro region, the industrial combustion and processes sector also plays an important contribution to PM concentrations.

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