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pollution levels, and the analysis of the impact of industrial activities and major public works on air quality.
The Laboratory also provides practical support to public authorities and the private sector within this area of
activities through the development of integrated environmental assessment tools with the use of informatics
technologies. In the frame of its consulting services, LHTEE is also significantly involved in the various
activities of EEA's European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change.
Role and contribution
AUTH will co-ordinate WP4 and will play a significant role in WP2 and WP7. In WP4, AUTH will lead the
investigation and testing of advanced physical and chemical parameterisations developed in WP2, and will
describe the dispersion, transformation and removal processes of the pollutants across the mesoscale and
urban scales. The coupled MEMO/MARS modelling system will also be used to relate meteorological
patterns to urban air pollution episodes and to identify and quantify the contribution of the main local
emission sources to the urban air quality. In WP2, numerical RANS and LES CFD simulations will be
performed by AUTH for the systematic study of small-scale features in the urban canopy and their effect on
the air flow, as well as for the description of the urban energy balance. In WP7, simplified approaches for
assessing megacities impact and climate impact on megacities will be suggested, through defining a
hierarchy of model complexities that will be organised with respect to the necessary input data, based on the
implementation of the model systems for different megacities.
Principal personnel involved
Prof. Nicolas Moussiopoulos - Director of LHTEE, and a Full Prof. at AUTH; also an Honorary Prof. at the
School of Mechanical Engineering (Universitaet Karlsruhe). His research focuses among others on the
development of atmospheric wind and dispersion/chemistry models and their application at the local-toregional
scales. He co-ordinated several large international research projects and is the author of more than
300 scientific publications (more than 80 in peer-reviewed journals). He is currently actively involved in
ACCENT, the European Network of Excellence on Atmospheric Composition Change, and in EU-funded
projects such as CAIR4HEALTH and NEEDS. He is a member of the German Academy of Natural
Scientists Leopoldina and in 2002 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Mr. John Douros is a Res. Assoc. within LHTEE. He studied Physics at AUTH and Environmental
Technology at Imperial College of the University of London where he completed his MSc course on fugitive
dust dispersion modelling. In 2001 he joined LHTEE where he is currently working on mesoscale
meteorological modelling and photochemical dispersion modelling. He also participates in various EUfunded
projects dealing with air pollution modelling and assessment, such as CAIR4HEALTH and NEEDS.
Mr. Photios Barmpas graduated as an Aerospace Engineer in 1997 and received M.Sc in Applied
Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics in 1999 from the University of Manchester. Since then he has held a
research engineering positioning LHTEE, in the field of CFD and Heat Transfer where he has registered as a
PhD student. He has worked on the optimisation of heat exchangers in future commercial airliners aeroengines
through CFD analysis as well as on wind flow and dispersion of pollutants in built-up areas for
various EU projects. At the moment he is working on the investigation of wind flow and the dispersion of
pollutants in built up areas using wind tunnel modelling techniques.
Selected relevant publications
Arvanitis A., Moussiopoulos N. (2005): Estimating long term urban exposure to particulate matter and ozone in
Europe, Environ. Model.g and Software, In Press
Moussiopoulos N. (1995): The MAC Zooming Model, a tool for local-to-regional air quality studies, Meteorology and
Atmos. Phys., 57, 115-133.
Moussiopoulos N., Douros I. (2003): Evaluation and sensitivity tests of MEMO using the ESCOMPTE pre-campaign
dataset, Int. J. of Environ. and Pollution , 20, 55-63.
Moussiopoulos N., Douros I. (2005) Efficient calculation of urban scale air pollutant dispersion and transformation
using the OFIS model within the framework of CityDelta, Int. J. of Environ. and Pollution, 24, 64-74.
Moussiopoulos N. Papagrigoriou S., Bartzis J.G., Nester K., Van den Bergh H., Theodoridis G. (2000): Forecasting air
quality in the greater Athens area for the year 2004: An intercomparison of the results of four different dispersion
models, Int. J. of Environ. and Pollution, 14, 343-353.
Moussiopoulos N., Papalexiou S., Sahm P. (2005): Wind flow and photochemical air pollution in Thessaloniki, Greece,
Part I: Simulations with the European Zooming Model, Environ. Sci. and Tech., In Press.
Partner 6: Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
CNRS represents five Joint Research Units : LISA, LSCE, LAMP, GAME and LGGE.
In addition SAFIRE / Méteo France will act as a subcontractor.
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