Influence of Ship Emissions on Ozone Concentration in a Mediterranean Area: A Modelling Approach

Cesari, Rita; Buccolieri, Riccardo; Dinoi, Adelaide; Maurizi, A.; Landi, Tony Christian; Sabatino, Silvana Di

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57645-9_50

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“…The most common and simplest one is a Gaussian-based model that assumes that the dispersion of air pollutants follows a Gaussian distribution. A steady-state Gaussian-based dispersion model such as the atmospheric dispersion modelling system (ADMS), which can simulate the effects of temporally and spatially variable meteorological conditions from point, line, area, or volume sources at a local scale (i.e., urban), has been applied [90,94]. Another popular steady-state Gaussian plume model, AERMOD, recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was also widely used by different groups [92,95] to evaluate the contribution of ships on PM emissions in harbour cities.…”

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The Impact of Shipping on Air Quality in the Port Cities of the Mediterranean Area: A Review

Toscano

2023

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Shipping emissions contribute significantly to air pollution at the local and global scales and will do so even more in the future because global maritime transport volumes are projected to increase. The Mediterranean Sea contains the major routes for short sea shipping within Europe and between Europe and East Asia. For this reason, concern about maritime emissions from Mediterranean harbours has been increasing on the EU and IMO (International Maritime Organization, London, UK) agenda, also supporting the implementation of a potential Mediterranean Emission Control Area (MedECA). Many studies are concerned with the impact of ship emissions in port cities. Studies of the contributions of ship emissions to air quality at the local scale include several monitoring and modelling techniques. This article presents a detailed review of the contributions of ship emissions of NO2, SO2, PM10, and PM2.5 on air quality in the main ports in the Mediterranean area. The review extracts and summarises information from published research. The results show a certain variability that suggests the necessity of harmonisation among methods and input data in order to compare results. The analysis illustrates the effects of this pollution source on air quality in urban areas, which could be useful for implementing effective mitigation strategies.

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The Impact of Shipping on Air Quality in the Port Cities of the Mediterranean Area: A Review

Toscano

2023

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“…The latter is usually performed at the finer horizontal resolution, but with the same vertical levels as the parent domain. Results of the model used in nesting configuration, with child domain at 0.06 • resolution, are shown in Buccolieri et al [19] and in Cesari et al [20]. Anthropogenic emissions must be provided by the user for the specific case considered.…”

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“…In the CityZen project, BOLCHEM contributed to the activities on regional climate [15][16][17], including aerosol and its interaction with radiation. The model, with the inclusion of both gas and aerosol chemistry, was applied for specific air quality studies, mainly in the frame of INTERREG ERESIA, INTERREG CESAPO, and MED POSEIDON projects [18][19][20].…”

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The On-Line Integrated Mesoscale Chemistry Model BOLCHEM

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This work presents the on-line coupled meteorology–chemistry transport model BOLCHEM, based on the hydrostatic meteorological BOLAM model, the gas chemistry module SAPRC90, and the aerosol dynamic module AERO3. It includes parameterizations to describe natural source emissions, dry and wet removal processes, as well as the transport and dispersion of air pollutants. The equations for different processes are solved on the same grid during the same integration step, by means of a time-split scheme. This paper describes the model and its performance at horizontal resolution of 0.2∘× 0.2∘ over Europe and 0.1∘× 0.1∘ in a nested configuration over Italy, for one year run (December 2009–November 2010). The model has been evaluated against the AIRBASE data of the European Environmental Agency. The basic statistics for higher resolution simulations of O3, NO2 and particulate matter concentrations (PM2.5 and PM10) have been compared with those from Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) ensemble median. In summer, for O3 we found a correlation coefficient R of 0.72 and mean bias of 2.15 over European domain and a correlation coefficient R of 0.67 and mean bias of 2.36 over Italian domain. PM10 and PM2.5 are better reproduced in the winter, the latter with a correlation coefficient R of 0.66 and the mean bias MB of 0.35 over Italian domain.

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“…Merico et al (2019) applied a steady-state Gaussian-based model -ADMS-5 -to estimate the dispersion of emissions from ships which are mainly in the hoteling and maneuvering phase in the harbor area of an Italian port city of Bari. The same model was also used by Cesari et al (2016) for a case study of ship emissions in Brindisi, Italy. Another popular steady-state Gaussian plume model, AERMOD, recommended by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was also widely used by different groups (Gibson et al, 2013;Cohan et al, 2011).…”

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Development of a moving point source model for shipping emission dispersion modeling in EPISODE–CityChem v1.3

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Abstract. This paper demonstrates the development of a moving point source (MPS) model for simulating the atmospheric dispersion of pollutants emitted from ships under movement. The new model is integrated into the chemistry transport model EPISODE–CityChem v1.3. In the new model, ship parameters, especially speed and direction, are included to simulate the instantaneous ship positions and then the emission dispersion at different simulation time. The model was first applied to shipping emission dispersion modeling under simplified conditions, and the instantaneous and hourly averaged emission concentrations predicted by the MPS model and the commonly used line source (LS) and fixed point source (FPS) models were compared. The instantaneous calculations were quite different due to the different ways to treat the moving emission sources by different models. However, for the hourly averaged concentrations, the differences became smaller, especially for a large number of ships. The new model was applied to a real configuration from the seas around Singapore that included hundreds of ships, and their dispersion was simulated over a period of a few hours. The simulated results were compared to measured values at different locations, and it was found that reasonable emission concentrations were predicted by the moving point source model.

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Influence of Ship Emissions on Ozone Concentration in a Mediterranean Area: A Modelling Approach

Cited by 5 publications

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The Impact of Shipping on Air Quality in the Port Cities of the Mediterranean Area: A Review

The Impact of Shipping on Air Quality in the Port Cities of the Mediterranean Area: A Review

The On-Line Integrated Mesoscale Chemistry Model BOLCHEM

Development of a moving point source model for shipping emission dispersion modeling in EPISODE–CityChem v1.3

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