Modelling future impacts of air pollution using the multi-scale UK Integrated Assessment Model (UKIAM)

Environment International

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-35

  Oxley, Tim ^a   Dore, Anthony J ^b   ApSimon, Helen ^a   Hall, Jane ^b   Kryza, Maciej ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Integrated assessment; Model integration; UKIAM

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELLING; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS; MODEL INTEGRATION; UKIAM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84884964078     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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