The Consortium University of Surrey, Alan Robins

Imperial College, Roy Colvile, Helen ApSimon, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen; APRIL Network

University of Bristol, Peter Simmonds, Graham Nickless

University of Cambridge, Rex Britter

University of Leeds, Margaret Bell, Alison Tomlin

University of Reading, Stephen Belcher

Proposal SupportLondon -> APRIL/EA/Local Government

DEFRA, AEQ Division

DSTL (Porton Down), HSE

Meteorological Office

Questions to Address In real urban settings

• What are individual exposure levels & what controls them?

• What determines relationships between emissions and exposure?

• How is personal exposure related to monitored air quality?

• How do pollutants move in & over a street network?

• How is material transferred to the ‘intermediate field’?

• How well can we predict these issues?

• How do we best go about managing air quality and exposure?

• What tools are needed to deal with this?

• Are these also suitable for incident management?

What We Will Do To cover scales of interest in space and time

• Conduct field experiments and monitoring.

• Carry out wind tunnel experiments.

• Undertake advanced computer modelling (CFD studies).

• Use these to provide full spatial & temporal description.

• Evaluate current operational models.

• Interpret what we learn - understand the science.

• Draw key lessons from the total activity.

• Develop new prediction methodologies & improve existing ones.

• Support spin-off activities.

Deliverables

• Science - through seminars, conferences, papers

• Data - accessed through internet or available on CD

• Methodologies - specifications and evaluations

• Best practice - guidelines (ERCOFTAC)

• Education & training - seminars & workshops

• Project workshops for rapid & focussed dissemination

• Web-site - for rapid dissemination

• Presentations - for advisory group members & third parties

• Reports & papers - formal final deliverables

Training - Skills ExchangeTo widen skills base

• Close collaboration with EPSRC CUPT project - Uni. of Leeds

• Maximise interaction between partners

• Exchanges between researchers

• Training seminars and workshops

• Regular progress reporting - seminars, news letters, www

• Timely transfer of outputs to user group

• Offer straightforward third party access

• Maximise the significance of the project to the whole community

Third Party Access Encourage & third party involvement (projects, PhDs, etc.) by:

• associated (field) experiments

• collaboration in the wind tunnel studies

• associated or independent modelling studies

• independent use of data

and by

• early provision of data

• early knowledge transfer through workshop & seminars

• establishing full data base of project outputs

• through membership of the Project Advisory Group.

Analysis

• Flow and dispersion processes

• Local transfer mechanisms

• Pollutant exchanges with the external flow

• Determinants of population & individual exposure

role of street ‘architecture’

traffic behaviour

meteorology

• Model performance

• Model design for effective decision support systems

Project Organisation Management Board

Robins, ColvileBell, Belcher, Britter, Nickless

Laboratory StudiesRobins, Colvile

Field Studies – ArnoldMet - Belcher

Tracer - Britter, NicklessExposure - Colvile

Emissions - Bell

ModellingBritter, BelcherColvile, Robins

EmissionsBell

Operational modellingBritter, Colvile, Robins

Assessment/interpretationBritter, Colvile, Bell,

Robins, Belcher, Nickless

QA and DataBell, Robins

Integration/disseminationColvile, Robins,

Bell, Britter

Project Advisory Group

Key Dates 2002 Spring - project start

recruitment

planning for field trials

2003 Spring, initial field trial

Autumn, main field trial

initial outputs

2004 Interim results, workshops, conference

2006 February - project end, final report and workshops