Showing papers by "Marina Neophytou published in 2015"
TL;DR: The drivers behind current rises in the use of low-cost sensors for air pollution management in cities are illustrated, while addressing the major challenges for their effective implementation.
591 citations
01 Feb 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate the drivers behind current rises in the use of low-cost sensors for air pollution management in cities, whilst addressing the major challenges for their effective implementation.
Abstract: Ever growing populations in cities are associated with a major increase in road vehicles and air pollution. The overall high levels of urban air pollution have been shown to be of a significant risk to city dwellers. However, the impacts of very high but temporally and spatially restricted pollution, and thus exposure, are still poorly understood. Conventional approaches to air quality monitoring are based on networks of static and sparse measurement stations. However, these are prohibitively expensive to capture tempo-spatial heterogeneity and identify pollution hotspots, which is required for the development of robust real-time strategies for exposure control. Current progress in developing low-cost micro-scale sensing technology is radically changing the conventional approach to allow real-time information in a capillary form. But the question remains whether there is value in the less accurate data they generate. This article illustrates the drivers behind current rises in the use of low-cost sensors for air pollution management in cities, whilst addressing the major challenges for their effective implementation.
136 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined long-term measurements of major criteria pollutants concentrations in an urban station in South-Eastern Mediterranean, in Nicosia- Cyprus, which is susceptible both to transboundary air pollution transport from Sahara-dust events as well as to evaporative transport of sea-sprays.
41 citations
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy (GPEP) at the University of Cyprus.
Abstract: 1 UNC Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC, USA jksching@gmail. 2 School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, gerald.mills@ucd.ie 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, see@iiasa.ac.at 4 Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Germany, benjamin.bechtel@uni-hamburg.de 5 Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA, feddema@ku.edu 6 UNC Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, ahanna@email.unc.edu 7 Sinergise, Ljubljana, Slovenia, grega.milcinski@sinergise.com 8 Centre National de Recherches Métérologiques, Météo France, Toulouse, France, valery.masson@meteo.fr 9 School of Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, neophytou@ucy.ac.cy 10 CIEMAT, Spain, alberto.martilli@ciemat.es 11 Université de Strasbourg, France, oscar.brousse@gmail.com 12 RAL, UCAR, Boulder Co, USA feichen@ucar.edu 13 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK, C.S.Grimmond@reading.ac.uk 14 University of Toronto, Can, iain.stewart@utoronto.ca 15 Sun Yet Sen University, Chn, eeswxm@mail.sysu.edu.cn 16 Auburn University, USA, chandana@auburn.edu
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