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| Section 1 | Advances in environmental research |
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An integrated applied research utilitising fluid-dynamic software as support to medical enquiry into health problems by air pollution; A user-friendly software for sustainable management of urban areas; A general model for predicting the environmental impact of urban transportation; Environmental and energy costs of a district heating network; Integrated analysis of performances of façades for indoor comfort purposes |
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| Section 2 | Air pollution |
| Air pollution model quality assurance: a review; Sensitivity of traffic emissions over the Iberian Peninsula by using MM5-CMAQ air quality modelling system; Identification of chemical species emission and sensitivity analysis with variational assimilation of restricted artificial observations; The application of an integrated GIS procedure for characterising TSP industrial emissions impact: a test case in Southern Italy; A new all-weather passive sampling system for monitoring air pollutants in the atmosphere to support model developments; Radon concentration in the atmosphere as an indicator of the height of the mixing layer in the region of mining activity; Transport and dispersion of blowing dust in the Mexico Basin; A data assimilation methodology for the plume phase of a nuclear accident; Variation of rainwater quality due to interactive mass transfer between raindrops and atmosphere; Advanced Pollutant Emissions Computer System ( APEX 4.0); SAMAA: A software for air quality modelling and analysis; CALPUFF, HPAC and VLSTRACK Evaluation with the over-land alongwind dispersion (OLAD) field data; AURORA: An air quality model for urban regions using an optimal resolution approach; New Internet connected air pollution monitoring network of Slovenia | |
| Section 3 | Environmental management and decision analysis |
| Environmental impact assessment of the underground railway in Bilbao (Spain); The environmental information system for the state of Kuwait; Modeling for environmental policy in India; Quantitative visual impact assessment using three-dimensional computer modelling; Satellite imagery for studying the UHI as an aid in urban planning; Simulation of a NOx-emission market in the Netherlands; Centre SIM: Hour-by-hour travel demand forecasting for mobile source emission estimation; Modeling spatial variability of 137Cs surface activity in a mountain area; Evaluation of a decision support system for the useful application of hazardous wastes with means of immobilisation-techniques; Dynamic economic-environmental simulation of waste pollution in Taiwan; Optimal control and parameter selection problems in forest stand management; Impact of tree mortality in optimal control and parameter selection problems in forest stand management; Landscape dynamics risk management in Northern Appennines (Italy); Contributions to an on-line exchange of environmental data; How economics can help to guide decision making in flood risk management | |
| Section 4 | Experimental and computational methods |
| A software tool to automatically fill time-series gaps of air quality data; Material properties of tailings of open-pit mines using coupled modelling; Monitoring tools and numerical models for evaluation of monitored natural attenuation of explosives at selected sites; Modeling for environmental impacts using experimental data | |
| Section 5 | Health and pollution |
| Data assimilation for assessing radioactive contamination in feed and foodstuffs; ACTS A multimedia contaminant transport modelling platform; Influence of environment on population health in Copsa Mica | |
| Section 6 | Surface and groundwater hydrology |
| Parameter identification of an unconfined aquifer using extended Kalman filter; Hydraulic and salinity finite element modeling of Smelt Brook, Massachusetts; Estimation of storm water pollution loads in coastal karstic areas; Flash flood forecast hydrological model; Distributed modelling of Lake Tonle Sap catchment; Advanced disinfection and health-care aspects of wastewater reclamation and reuse in agriculture in Mediterranean regions; Restoration of coastal wetlands and management of wastewater disposal; Characteristics of river flow in the Transylvanian Basin | |
| Section 7 | Water and soil pollution |
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Modelling of toxic mercury in coastal seas - Case study Yatsushiro Sea, Japan; Analytical determination of limit-cycle pollutant concentrations in small tidal embayments; BEM simulation of groundwater contamination remediation; Evaluation of a novel technique for measuring reaeration in rivers |
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