Micrometeorological Methods for the Indirect Estimation of Odorous Emissions.

Odors are typically released into the atmosphere as diffuse emissions from area and volume sources, whose detailed quantification in terms of odor emission rate is often hardly achievable by direct source sampling. Indirect methods, involving the use of micrometeorological methods in order to correlate downwind concentrations to the emission rates, are already mentioned in literature, but rarely found in real applications for the quantification of odor emissions. The instrumentation needed for the development of micrometeorological methods has nowadays become accessible in terms of prices and reliability, thus making the implementation of such methods to industrial applications more and more interesting.

A nationwide study of air pollution from particulate matter and daily hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in Italy.

Background/aim: The relationship between air pollution and respiratory morbidity has been widely addressed in urban and metropolitan areas but little is known about the effects in non-urban settings. Our aim was to assess the short-term effects of PM10 and PM2.5 on respiratory admissions in the whole country of Italy during 2006-2015.

Long-term exposure to air pollutants from multiple sources and mortality in an industrial area: a cohort study.

Background And Aims: Residents near industrial areas are exposed to several toxins from various sources and the assessment of the health effects is difficult. The area of Civitavecchia (Italy) has several sources of environmental contamination with potential health effects. We evaluated the association between exposure to pollutants from multiple sources and mortality in a cohort of people living in the area.

Particle-related exposure, dose and lung cancer risk of primary school children in two European countries.

Schools represent a critical microenvironment in terms of air quality due to the proximity to outdoor particle sources and the frequent lack of proper ventilation and filtering systems. Moreover, the population exposed in schools (i.e.

Quality control and gap-filling of PM daily mean concentrations with the best linear unbiased estimator.

According to the European Directive 2008/50/CE, the air quality assessment consists in the measurement of the concentration fields, and the evaluation of the mean, number of exceedances, etc. of some chemical species dangerous to human health. The measurements provided by an air quality ground-based monitoring network are the main information source but the availability of these data is often limited by several technical and operational problems.