Resources
DMUG
DMUG is the one-day conference for users of dispersion models. This unapologetically technical conference is the key biennial event for experts in this field providing a platform for knowledge exchange, debate and discussion on topical issues.
Download resources from past events
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