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Research Areas

Air Quality

Combustion of fossil fuels releases pollutants into the atmosphere which react chemically to form smog, which has been shown to cause health problems that result in hospitalization and premature death.

We aim to quantify and model regional scale (tens to hundreds of km) air quality over Canada and the U.S., adversely affected from cross-boundary transport of pollutants and population growth (e.g., in the Western U.S.).

Our research priority here is the development of a new generation of regional chemical modeling systems based on a Lagrangian approach like STILT. This chemical modeling system will serve as a crucial bridge at the regional scale, between coarse-scale global models and the finescale urban-shed models. This chemical modeling system will also serve as a policy assessment tool that enables decision makers to explore the effect of specific policies on regional air quality.

 

 

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