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Air Pollution Modeling
and its Application XXI
editedby
Douw G. Steyn
Departmentof Earthand OceanSciences,
TheUniversity of BritishColumbia, Vancouver, BC,Canada
and
Silvia Trini Castelli
Institute of AtmosphericSciencesand Climate NationalResearch CouncilCNR
Torino, Italy
Published inCooperation with NATOEmerging SecurityChallengesDivision
Proceedings of the31stNATO/SPSInternationalTechnicalMeetingon
Air Pollution Modelingand itsApplication
Torino, Italy
September 27–October1, 2010
Libraryof Congress Control Number: 2011933839
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This volume is dedicated to the memory of Daewon Byun, friend,
colleague and extraordinary air pollution modeller who attended the
31st ITM and many before that. He was taken from our midst on
February 10th, 2011.
Previous Volumes in this Mini-Series
VolumesI–XIIwereincludedintheNATOChallengesofModernSocietySeries
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsI
EditedbyC.deWispelaere
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsII
EditedbyC.deWispelaere
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsIII
EditedbyC.deWispelaere
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsIV
EditedbyC.deWispelaere
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsV
EditedbyC.deWispelaere,FrancisA.Schiermeier,andNoorV.Gllani
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsVI
EditedbyHanvanDop
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsVII
EditedbyHanvanDop
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsVIII
EditedbyHanvanDopandDouwG.Steyn
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsIX
EditedbyHanvanDopandGeorgeKallos
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsX
EditedbySven-ErikGryningandMilla´nM.Milla´n
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXI
EditedbySven-ErikGryningandFrancisA.Schiermeier
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viii PreviousVolumesinthisMini-Series
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXII
EditedbySven-ErikGryningandNadineChaumerliac
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXIII
EditedbySven-ErikGryningandEkaterinaBatchvarova
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXIV
EditedbySven-ErikGryningandFrancisA.Schiermeier
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXV
EditedbyCarlosBorregoandGuySchayes
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXVI
EditedbyCarlosBorregoandSelahattinIncecik
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXVII
EditedbyCarlosBorregoandAnn-LiseNorman
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXVIII
EditedbyCarlosBorregoandEberhardRenner
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXIX
EditedbyCarlosBorregoandAnaIsabelMiranda
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXX
EditedbyDouwG.SteynandS.TrivikramaRao
AirPollutionModelingandItsApplicationsXXI
EditedbyDouwG.SteynandSilviaTriniCastelli
Preface
In1969,theNorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization(NATO)establishedtheCommittee
on Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS). From inception, the subject of air
pollution was established as one of the priority problems for study within the
frameworkofvariouspilotstudiesundertakenbythiscommittee.Themainactivity
relating to air pollution is the periodic organization of a conference series called
InternationalTechnicalMeetingonAirPollutionModelinganditsApplication
(ITM). Pilot Countries organizing these meetings have been: United States of
America; Federal Republic of Germany; Belgium; The Netherlands; Denmark;
PortugalandCanada.
This volume contains the abstracts of papers and posters presented at the 31st
NATO/SPS ITM, held in Torino, Italy, from September 27 to October 1, 2010.
This ITM was organizedby the Instituteof Atmospheric Sciences andClimateof
theItalianNationalResearchCouncil(HostCountry)andTheUniversityofBritish
Columbia (Pilot Country). Key topics presented at this ITM included: Local and
urbanscalemodelling;Regionalandintercontinentalmodelling;Dataassimilation
and air quality forecasting; Model assessment and verification; Aerosols in the
atmosphere; Interactions between climate change and air quality; Air quality and
humanhealth.
The ITM was attended by 157 participants representing 36 countries. Invited
paperswerepresentedbyAndreaFlossmann,France(AerosolsintheAtmosphere);
Stefano Galmarini, Italy(Data AssimilationandAir QualityForecasting); Joakim
Langner, Sweden (Interactions between climate change and air quality) and
LawrenceReiter,USA(Airpollutionandhumanhealth).
On behalf of the ITM Scientific Committee and as organizers and editors, we
wouldliketothankalltheparticipantswhocontributedtothesuccessofthemeeting.
Weespeciallyrecognizetheorganizationalandsupporteffortsofthechairpersons
andrapporteurs,thestaffatISAC-CNRandVincentJeansonforthe31stITMlogo.
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Finally, special thanks to the sponsoring institutions: ISAC CNR (Italy) and The
University of British Columbia (Canada), and the sponsoring organizations
NATO Science for Peace and Security; Environment Canada; Regione Piemonte;
Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino; Torino
ConventionBureau;ConsiglioRegionaledelPiemonteandEuropean Association
fortheScienceofAirPollution(EURASAP).RegionePiemonteandProvinciadi
Torino gave their patronage to the Congress. A special grant was given by EUR-
ASAPtoawardprizestoyoungresearchersforthebestpaperorposter.
ThenextmeetingwillbeheldinMay2012inUtrecht,TheNetherlands.
SilviaTriniCastelli
DouwG.Steyn
