Resources

Opportunities and uncertainty of EMEP4UK
Massimo Vieno, Senior Air Pollution Modeller, UKCEH

The complexities of modelling PFAS emissions to air and the potential role of CTMs
Adam Clegg, Technical Director, Air Quality Consultants

Uncertainty in rail emissions modelling
Neil Grennan-Heaven, Associate, Aether Limited

Modelling caps and cowls for MCP
Tom Lindop, Technical Advisor, Environment Agency

Jenny Stocker, CERC – A new module in ADMS-Roads for elevated roads
Huw Woodward, Imperial College – Simulating the dispersion of traffic emissions at the
microscale
David Bagshaw, Atkins – Roadside barriers – Accounting for the effect of vehicle induced
momentum and turbulence in the prediction of roadside concentrations
Glyn Rhys-Tyler, Independent consultant & researcher- Light vehicle dynamics and NOx
emissions on the motorway network
Jack Davison, University of York – Uses of vehicle emissions remote sensing data for emission factor development
Paul Agnew, Met Office – The role of snow in a significant UK dispersion event
Sarah Horrocks, Atkins – A practical example of using AERMOD to analyse exceedances of a threshold
Michael Bull and Rosie Davies, Arup – Use of the fluctuations module in ADMS to investigate “real life” odour exposure
Simon Gant, HSE – An introduction to the latest dispersion modelling guidelines
Mark Broomfield, Ricardo Energy & Environment – Using the IAQM guidance on assessing
air quality impacts on nature conservation sites in practice
Claire Holman, Air Pollution Services & Julia Luongo, Ramboll – Shair: A real time air quality
model

Jesse Thé (Lakes Environmental) – The New SCIPUFF Air Dispersion Model, with Comparison Against CALPUFF
Arun Kanchan (Trinity Consultants)  – Prognostic Meteorological Models and Their Use in Dispersion Modelling
Ji Ping Shi (Natural Resources Wales) – Use of the German Weather Services KLAM Model to Investigate the Cold Air Drainage Flow in Valley Area for Regulatory Assessment
Sofia Girnary (Environment Agency) – Air Quality Assessments for Environmental Permit Applications
David Fowler (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) – Modelling the Deposition of Pollutants on Habitats
Ben Marner (Air Quality Consultants) – Modelling Development: Related Changes in Concentrations and Deposition to Habitats
Alison Tomlin (University of Leeds) – The Treatment of Uncertainty in Models
Catheryn Price (CERC) – Source Terms and Model Sensitivity
Scott Hamilton (Ricardo) – Air Quality Modelling of New and Emerging Vehicle Technologies- What Can They Deliver in Central Scotland?
Austin Cogan (Air Quality Consultants) – Modelling Street Canyons: Comparison of ADMS-Roads and CFD Modelling
Ruth Shilston (RWDI) – Comparison of Wind Tunnel and CFD Modelling for Near-field Dispersion from an Exhaust Stack
Rosie Davies & Anusan Sugumaar (Arup) – Advanced Gaussian Model or CFD?

Emma Gibbons (Arup) – How should we address model uncertainty in the assessment of major infrastructure projects?
Rosie Brook (Aether) – Air Pollution in London: Exposure and Deprivation
Amy Stidworthy (CERC) – Optimising local air quality models with sensor data: examples from Cambridge
Kieran Laxen (Air Quality Consultants) – Assessing the impacts of short-term power generation
Adam Clegg (AMEC) – An alternative method for modelling the dispersion of flare emissions
Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Estimating vehicle emissions – The need for a better approach
Marc Stettler (Imperial College) – Modelling of instantaneous vehicle emissions
James Tate (Leeds University) – Better estimation of vehicle emissions for modelling using telematics data
Glyn Rhys-Tyler (Independent) – Road vehicle exhaust emissions: ‘an age of uncertainty’
Jian Zhong (Birmingham University) – Modelling the neighbourhood-scale dispersion of ultrafine particles using WRF-LES

Alun Roberts-Jones (Environment Agency) – Using a Lagrangian particle model to assess long-range impacts from large point sources
Aidan Farrow (University of Hertfordshire) – The use of mesoscale models to forecast air quality in cities
Alan Robins (University of Surrey) – The role of physical modelling of atmospheric dispersion
Bethan Tuckett Jones (Parsons Brinckerhoff) – Investigation of near-field effects of generator plumes using CFD
David Carruthers (CERC) – Developments in modelling building wake effects on dispersion in ADMS
Scott Hamilton (Ricardo AEA) – Use of WRF/CALPUFF for modelling odours at industrial facilities
Michel Vedrenne (Ricardo AEA) – The development of the Streamlined-PCM as a tool for screening the impact of road-traffic policy actions on NO2 concentrations
Nigel Bellamy (Highways England) – The latest version of DMRB
Ben Marner (Air quality Consultants) – Real-world emissions, the EFT, and a new worst-case emissions calculator

Christine McHugh (AMEC) – Comparison of Air Quality in World Cities
Sean Beevers (Kings College) – Developing a hybrid personal exposure model in London
Rebecca Morris (Ricardo-AEA) – Modelling PM2.5 mortality burdens in the UK
James Tate (Leeds University) – Making better use of microsimulation models for estimating vehicle emissions
Duncan Laxen (AQC) – Linking ADMS with microsimulation models
Yvonne Brown (Bureau Veritas) – Emissions Factors Toolkit Update
Scott Hamilton (Ricardo AEA) – Regional and city scale modelling of air quality in Saudi Arabia
Martin Seaton (CERC) – Advances in the treatment of street canyons and urban canopy flow in ADMS-Urban and ADMS-Roads
Michael Bull (ARUP) – Observed variations in modelling studies for cumulative impact assessment

David Hall & Angela Spanton (Envirobods) – Ingress of External Contaminants into Buildings: A Review
Vina Kukadia – Ingress of External Contaminants into Buildings: A new methodology
Sean Beevers (Kings College London) – Developing a hybrid exposure model for London
Irina Nikolova (University of Birmingham) – FASTER (Fundamental Studies of the Sources, Properties and Environmental Behaviour of Exhaust Nanoparticles from Road Vehicles) Modelling ultrafine particle size distributions inside a street canyon
Helen ApSimon (Imperial University) – Findings of the CCC Air quality report
Andrea Fraser (Ricardo –AEA) – AirDART (Air quality Data Analysis & Retrieval Tool) – an internet-based tool for the rapid retrieval of input data from an archive
Hazel Peace (Ricardo-AEA) – Modelling the impact of alternative fuels on PM2.5 concentrations at US airports
Laurence Caird (Air Quality Consultants) – The application of ADMS Airports
David Carruthers (CERC) – New developments in the representation of plume chemistry in dispersion models
Christelle Escoffier (Exponent) – A CALPUFF model overview and some applications

Introduction
Martin Williams (King’s College London) – Ten years of the IAQM – lessons for air quality professionals

Improving current practice on modelling for local air quality management
Tim Murrells (AEA Technology) – Latest road transport emission factors and fleet data
Richard Bradley (Mouchel) – Issues associated with integrating transport and environmental models
Roger Barrowcliffe (RWDI and Clear Air Thinking) – Limitations of using dispersion models for point sources in the urban environment – comparisons with the wind tunnel model
Helen ApSimon (APRIL) – Air quality implications of a decentralised energy scenario for London

Issues for the future related to the new EU Air Quality Directive – Chaired by Bernard Fisher, Environment Agency
Emily Connolly (AEA Technology/Defra) – FAIRMODE Forum for Air Quality Modelling in Europe – implications for the UK
David Carslaw (King’s College London) – Defra modelling intercomparison exercise
Roy Harrison (University of Birmingham) – Regulatory and air quality management implications of setting particle number standards
Paul Quincey (NPL) – Black carbon and elemental carbon as possible regulated metrics
Gary Fuller (King’s College London) – Seasonal and temporal behaviour of PM from biomass burning