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aspects of pollution from megacities. A current postdoc in his group, Dr. Tim Butler, would perform most of
the funded work within MEGAPOLI.
Prof. Jos Lelieveld graduated in the Netherlands at Leiden University from the Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences (1984), and has a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Utrecht University
(1990). He was a scientist at the MPIC from 1987-1993, a professor at Wageningen University from 1993-
1996 and at Utrecht University from 1996-2000, and has been director at the MPIC since 2000. His research
interests concentrate on the processes that control ozone and other photo-oxidants in the troposphere.
Prof. Thomas Wagner led the satellite remote sensing group in the Institute for Environmental Physics at the
University of Heidelberg until 2006, when he came to the MPIC to lead the newly formed satellite remote
sensing group there. He has many years of experience in developing new retrieval algorithms for IR/Vis/UV
satellite instruments, especially GOME and SCIAMACHY, and is the author of numerous papers applying
these data to understand current issues in tropospheric pollution, such as the outflow from major urban
regions, and trends in pollution levels.
Prof. Stephan Borrmann is director of the Particle Chemistry Department of MPIC in Mainz, which has
developed an extensive capability for making in-situ aerosol measurements, including a mobile laboratory.
This group has expressed an interest in participating in the Paris plume field campaign on institute or
national funding, if possible.
Prof. Paul J. Crutzen (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995) was director of the Atmospheric Chemistry
Department of the MPIC in Mainz until summer 2000 and since then he is Prof. Emeritus at MPIC. He will
be on the advisory board for the project.
Selected relevant publications
Lawrence, M. G., T. M. Butler, J. Steinkamp, B. R. Gurjar, J. Lelieveld, (2006): Regional pollution potentials of
megacities and other major population centers, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 13323-13366.
Butler, T. M., M. G. Lawrence, B. Gurjar, J. van Aardenne, M. Schultz , J. Lelieveld, (2006): The representation of
emissions from megacities in global emissions inventories, Atmos. Env., In Review.
Lawrence, M. G., P. J. Crutzen, (1999): Influence of NOx emissions from ships on tropospheric photochemistry and
climate, Nature, 402, 167-170.
Beirle, S., U. Platt, M. Wenig, T. Wagner, (2003): Weekly cycle of NO2 by GOME measurements: A signature of
anthropogenic sources. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 3, 2225-2232.
Beirle, S., Platt, U.,Wenig, M., Wagner, T., (2004): Highly resolved global distribution of tropospheric NO2 using
GOME narrow swath mode data, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4, 1913-1924.
Partner 4: ARIANET (SME)
Expertise and experience of the organization
ARIANET is an environmental consulting company based in Milan, founded in year 2000 by a group of
scientists, experts in air pollution and meteorological modelling mostly coming from research centres
(ENEL- former electricity board and universities). ARIANET activities include: applied meteorological and
air quality modelling from to local scale; air quality forecasting; real-time pollution control for industrial
sites; development of emission inventories; integration between simulation models and geographic
information systems (GIS), reconstruction of traffic flows and evaluation of their impact on air quality.
ARIANET recent activities include: 1) support to ENEA and Italian Environmental Ministry in the
development of RAINS-Italy; 2) cooperation with Italian Regional and Local Environmental Agencies to
implement air pollution modelling systems for yearly air quality assessment and management at regional and
urban scale; 3) participation in EU FP5 project FUMAPEX, as WP leader, developing an urban air quality
forecasting system for the Turin urban area.
Role and contribution
Multiscale emission modelling, integration of different emission inventories and up-scaling of high
resolution regional and city scale emissions (WP1). Nested air quality modelling system applications to
upscale megacities and hotspots pollution and evaluate their local to regional air quality impact (WP5 and
WP7). Development, application and demonstration of prototype modelling system for case studies and
scenarios evaluation on the Po-Valley urban conglomeration area and Mexico City (WP7 and WP8).
Principal personnel involved
Giuseppe Calori (Senior Scientist; Ph.: +39-02-27007255; Fax: +39-02-25708084, e-mail: g.calori@arianet.it)
- Univ.Degree in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Automatica, both from Politecnico di Milano.
Research scholar at IIASA (International Institute for Applied System Analysis) in 1995. Post-doc at
Politecnico di Milano in 1995-96. Visiting scholar at CGRER – Univ. of Iowa (Center for Global and
Regional Environmental Research) in 1999. Contributor and co-ordinator of R&D projects on air pollution
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