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Atmospheric impact of ship traffic in four Adriatic-Ionian port-cities: Comparison and harmonization of different approaches
- Source :
- Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment 50 (2017): 431–445. doi:10.1016/j.trd.2016.11.016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Merico E.; Gambaro A.; Argiriou A.; Alebic-Juretic A.; Barbaro E.; Cesari D.; Chasapidis L.; Dimopoulos S.; Dinoi A.; Donateo A.; Giannaros C.; Gregoris E.; Karagiannidis A.; Konstandopoulos A.G.; Ivosevic T.; Liora N.; Melas D.; Mifka B.; Orlic I.; Poupkou A.; Sarovic K.; Tsakis A.; Giua R.; Pastore T.; Nocioni A.; Contini D./titolo:Atmospheric impact of ship traffic in four Adriatic-Ionian port-cities: Comparison and harmonization of different approaches/doi:10.1016%2Fj.trd.2016.11.016/rivista:Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment/anno:2017/pagina_da:431/pagina_a:445/intervallo_pagine:431–445/volume:50, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 50
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Shipping is a growing transport sector representing a relevant share of atmospheric pollutant emissions at global scale. In the Mediterranean Sea, shipping affects air quality of coastal urban areas with potential hazardous effects on both human health and climate. The high number of different approaches for investigating this aspect limits the comparability of results. Furthermore, limited information regarding the inter-annual trends of shipping impacts is available. In this work, an approach integrating emission inventory, numerical modelling (WRF-CAMx modelling system), and experimental measurements at high and low temporal resolution is used to investigate air quality shipping impact in the Adriatic/Ionian area focusing on four port-cities: Brindisi and Venice (Italy), Patras (Greece), and Rijeka (Croatia). Results showed shipping emissions of particulate matter (PM) and NOx comparable to road traffic emissions at all port-cities, with larger contributions to local SO2 emissions. Contributions to PM2.5 ranged between 0.5% (Rijeka) and 7.4% (Brindisi), those to PM10 were between 0.3% (Rijeka) and 5.8% (Brindisi). Contributions to particle number concentration (PNC) showed an impact 2-4 times larger with respect to that on mass concentrations. Shipping impact on gaseous pollutants are larger than those to PM. The contribution to total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) concentrations was 82% in Venice and 56% in Brindisi, with a different partition gas-particle because of different meteorological conditions. The inter-annual trends analysis showed the primary contribution to PM concentrations decreasing, due to the implementation of the European legislation on the use of low-sulphur content fuels. This effect was not present on other pollutants like PAHs. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Subjects :
- Emission inventory
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Particle number
Transportation
Harmonization
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Shipping
Receptor models
Mediterranean sea
Shipping, Particulate matter, Receptor models, Emission inventory, WRF-CAMx
shipping
particulate matter
receptor models
emission inventory
WRF-CAMx
Settore CHIM/01 - Chimica Analitica
Air quality index
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Civil and Structural Engineering
Pollutant
Environmental engineering
Particulates
Port (computer networking)
WFR-CAMx
BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Public Health and Health Care. Health Ecology
Environmental science
BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita. Zdravstvena ekologija
Particulate matter
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13619209
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment 50 (2017): 431–445. doi:10.1016/j.trd.2016.11.016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Merico E.; Gambaro A.; Argiriou A.; Alebic-Juretic A.; Barbaro E.; Cesari D.; Chasapidis L.; Dimopoulos S.; Dinoi A.; Donateo A.; Giannaros C.; Gregoris E.; Karagiannidis A.; Konstandopoulos A.G.; Ivosevic T.; Liora N.; Melas D.; Mifka B.; Orlic I.; Poupkou A.; Sarovic K.; Tsakis A.; Giua R.; Pastore T.; Nocioni A.; Contini D./titolo:Atmospheric impact of ship traffic in four Adriatic-Ionian port-cities: Comparison and harmonization of different approaches/doi:10.1016%2Fj.trd.2016.11.016/rivista:Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment/anno:2017/pagina_da:431/pagina_a:445/intervallo_pagine:431–445/volume:50, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 50
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1589e35b20a05635612af2b58bf91cf9