Air pollutant emissions

The research aims at developing tools and methods to evaluate air pollutant emissions, more specifically from road transport. Methods are proposed to detect errors in emission inventories. The research is conducted to be transferred as soon as possible to any territory in the world.

• To assess pollutant emissions and validate the inventories

• Develop strategies for reducing pollutant emissions

• Define air pollution reduction strategies

• International Emerging Actions (IEA CNRS) NEWAIR  “Development of energy-water-air nexus framework for wastewater treatment” – 2023-2025. Coordinator : N. Blond, P. Arora (IIT Roorkee, India). Participants : IIT Roorkee, India.
• ECOS-North “Development of decision support tools for the definition of energy, climate and air quality strategies” – 2018-2022. Coordinator: Alain Clappier. Participants : University UNAL.
• Interreg SUMO-Rhine “Foster sustainable mobility in the Upper Rhine region” – 2018-2021. Coordinatrice : M.A. Kira Schumacher (KIT-DFIU). Participants : KIT-DFIU, KIT-ECON, KIT-IIP, Universitât Freibourg, Universitât Koblenz-Landau, UNISTRA-LIVE, CNRS-LIVE, UHA-IRIMAS, IMM ENSAS, Lörrach.
• EU FP7 APPRAISAL “Integrated assessment for regional and local air quality policies” – 2012-2015. Coordinator : Maria Luisa Volta de l’Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italia). Participants : Universita degli Studi de Brecia, Agenzia regionale prevenzione e ambiente dell’ Emilia-Romagna (ARPA), Terraria (s.r.l), Université de Brescia (UNIBS), Air quality ASPA, Joint Research Center (JRC), CNRS, University of Strasbourg.
• FAIRMODE (European Commission Joint Research Centre JRC) “Forum for Air quality Modeling” since 2007.

• Thunis, P., A. Clappier, E. Pisoni, B. Bessagnet, J. Kuenen, M. Guevara and S. Lopez-Aparicio 2022: A multi-pollutant and multi-sectorial approach to screen the consistency of emission inventories, submitted to Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-390.

• Cuellar-Alvarez Y., A. Clappier, M. Osses, P. Thunis and L. C. Belalcazar-Ceron 2022: Well-to-wheel emissions and abatement strategies for passenger vehicles in two Latin-American cities, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20885-9

• Khazini, L., M.J. Kalajahi, N. Blond, An analysis of emission reduction strategy for light and heavy-duty vehicles pollutions in high spatial–temporal resolution and emission. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 23419–23435 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17497-0 

• Clappier, A. and P. Thunis 2020: A probabilistic approach to screen and improve emission inventories, Atmos. Environ., 242, 117831.

• Madrazo, J., A. Clappier, O. A. Cuesta, L. Belalcazar, E. R. Carrillo Vitale, C. Sosa Pérez, J. Bolufé Torres, Y. Gonzalez Jaime, R. W. Manso Jiménez, J. Canciano Fernández and F. Golay, 2019: Evidence of traffic-generated air pollution in Havane, Atmosferá, 32, 60-75.

• Madrazo, J., A. Clappier, L. Belalcazar, O. Cuesta, H. Contreras and F. Golay, 2018: Screening differences between a local inventory and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), Science of the Total. Environ., 631-632, 934-941.

• Madrazo, J., and A. Clappier, 2018: Low-cost methodology to estimate vehicle emission factors, Atmos. Pollu. Reas., 9, 322-332.

• Trombetti, M., P. Thunis, B. Bessagnet, A. Clappier, F. Couvidat, M. Guevara, J. Kuenen, S. López-Aparicio and B. Degraeuwe, 2018: Spatial inter-comparison of Top-down emission inventories in European urban areas, Atmos. Environ., 173, 142-156.

• Rahal F., Z. Hadjou, N. Blond et R. Aguejdad, « Croissance urbaine, mobilité et émissions de polluants atmosphériques dans la région d’Oran, Algérie », Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography [En ligne], Cartographie, Imagerie, SIG, document 850, mis en ligne le 18 avril 2018, consulté le 17 novembre 2018. DOI :  https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.29111 

• Ježek, I. N. Blond, G. Skupinski, G. Močnik, 2018. The traffic emission-dispersion model for a Central-European city agrees with measured black carbon apportioned to traffic. Atmospheric Environment. 184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.04.028 

• Rahal F., N. Benharrats, N. Blond, A. Clappier, J.-L. Ponche, Modelling of air pollution in the area of Algiers City, Algeria, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEP.2014.064049 

  Ho Q.B., A. Clappier, N. Blond, Fast and optimized methodology to generate road traffic emission inventories and their uncertainties, Journal of CLEAN-Air, Water and Soil, doi:10.1002/clean.201300261, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/clen.201300261  

  Belalcazar L. C., Clappier A., Blond N., Flassak T., Eichhorn J., An evaluation of the estimation of road traffic emission factors from tracer studies, Atmos. Environ., 44, 3814-3822, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.038