Sentences with phrase «regional air quality»

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Yet SOA concentrations have been significantly underestimated in regional air quality models.

Biomass burning also affects regional air quality, with implications for human health.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

They assembled a group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine; the California Energy Commission; and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, many of whom had previously collaborated on regional air quality projects.

The researchers comment that besides using dense development to improve regional air quality, planners might need to adopt complementary incentives to protect against local adverse health - effects hotspots.

«In addition to highlighting the benefits of strengthening the NAAQS, this report can help guide local and regional air quality management decisions,» said report co-author Gary Ewart, MHS, chief of the ATS advocacy and government relations program.

Estimation of regional air quality damages from Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania

An increasing aerosol load due to human activities decreases regional air quality and the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

Since short - lived species can significantly influence climate, regional air quality emission control strategies for short - lived pollutants will thus substantially impact climate over large scales, such as the Northern Hemisphere.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

The research seeks to determine how emissions, chemistry and meteorology combine to affect regional air quality and climate in the Southeastern United States.

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

«It was a unique opportunity to quantify directly, and for the very first time, the contribution of power plants to regional air quality,» he says.

The MIT group paid especially close attention to how changes in emissions caused by policy translate into improvements in local and regional air quality, using comprehensive models of both the economy and the atmosphere.

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

Aside from the destruction caused by the burning, the fires wreaked havoc on local and regional air quality.

Congestion pricing would also lead to regional air quality and traffic flow benefits.

Overseen by the regional air quality control agency, the program aims to get more people out of private vehicles in order to cut tailpipe pollution and reduce crowding on public transportation.