Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVII

Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVII is one of the volumes in the long running NATO Science for Peace and Security air pollution modeling series, with this particular volume edited by Carlos Borrego and Ann Lieuwes Norman and published in 2007. The series collects the proceedings of the periodic NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, with each volume containing the technical papers presented at the corresponding workshop along with the editorial introductions and the wider scholarly framing that the workshop produced.

The Air Pollution Modeling and its Application workshops have been one of the major international gatherings of researchers working on the computational and mathematical models that environmental scientists and policy makers use to understand how air pollution moves through the atmosphere, how various sources contribute to pollution levels at particular locations, and how policy interventions might reduce pollution and protect public health. The technical material covered across the various workshops includes meteorological modeling, chemical transport modeling, source apportionment, deposition modeling, urban scale air quality modeling, regional and global atmospheric chemistry, and the various other components that go into modern air quality assessment and prediction.

Volume XVII covers the proceedings of one specific workshop in the series, with papers from researchers working at universities, government environmental agencies, and private sector consulting firms across the international air quality modeling community. The papers typically present specific research projects, methodological developments, case studies of particular pollution events or locations, and the wider scientific developments that the field has been producing. The cumulative output across the long running series provides a kind of running archive of how the field has developed across the decades.

The Air Pollution Modeling series is aimed at the technical research community working on these subjects, including environmental scientists, atmospheric chemists, meteorologists, public health researchers, and the various policy specialists who depend on the models for their regulatory work. The papers assume substantial technical background in atmospheric science and in the computational methods that the various models use, and the volumes are most useful as professional reference works for researchers active in the field rather than as introductory resources for general readers.

For researchers in atmospheric science, in environmental health, in air quality regulation, or in the wider environmental modeling community, the Air Pollution Modeling and its Application series volumes are essential reference works. The series continues to produce new volumes at regular intervals as the field develops, with each volume providing the kind of snapshot of current research that the international atmospheric science community needs. Volume XVII represents one entry in a series that has been one of the foundational venues for international air quality modeling research across multiple decades.