Veronika S. Brand

TL;DR: It was concluded that car-users in the least affluent cities experienced disproportionately higher in-car PM2.5 exposures, indicating filter effectiveness in removing coarse particles and a need for filters that limit the ingress of fine particles.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial, annual, and diurnal variation in destructive hailstorm frequency during a 22-year period from 1991 to 2012 in Brazil is analyzed. But the analysis is based on a collection of reports released by the Brazilian National Civil Protection Secretariat (SEDEC).

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative assessment of cyclists' exposure to black carbon (BC) in three cities: London, Rotterdam and Sao Paulo, is presented, with an aim to understand the BC exposure variabilities while cycling during peak and off-peak hours, identify main pollution hotspots resulting in enhanced exposure and associate the measured concentrations with proximity to green areas and waterways.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between air pollution levels and socioeconomic indicators (fuel prices, city-specific GDP, road density, the value of statistical life (VSL), health burden and economic losses resulting from exposure to fine particulate matter ≤2.5) during car journeys in ten cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Chennai (India); Guangzhou (China); Medellin (Colombia); Sao Paulo (Brazil), Cairo (Egypt); Sulaymaniyah (Iraq); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Blantyre (Malawi); and Dar

TL;DR: Data provided by two important sources of information on land use and land cover (LULC), MODIS-2009 and GLOBCOVER-2009, were analyzed for South America in order to assess differences related to their application in numerical modeling studies.