P1: Overview and importance of ambient air quality monitoring for air quality management

P1 AQM Overview PPTs

Reading materials:

1. Guidance Framework for Better Air Quality in Asian Cities
2. Air quality monitoring by sensors
3. Managing Air Quality - Ambient Air Monitoring
4. Air Quality Monitoring

P2: Air quality monitoring by low-cost sensors

P2 AQM Sensors PPTs

​Reading materials:

1. Domain adaptation based deep calibration of low-cost PM2.5 sensors
   
2. Few-shot calibration of low-cost air pollution sensors using meta-learning
3. Robust statistical calibration and characterization of portable low-cost air quality monitoring sensors to quantify real-time O3 and NO2 concentrations in diverse environments
4. Validation of low-cost sensors in measuring real-time Validation of low-cost sensors in measuring real-time PM10 concentration at two sites in Delhi national capital region
5. Toward an IoT Cyber-Infrastructure for Low-Cost Urban Air Quality Monitoring
6. Gaussian Process regression model for dynamically calibrating and surveilling a wireless low-cost particulate matter sensor network in Delhi
7. Field evaluation of low-cost particulate matter sensors in high and low concentration environments, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

P3: Air quality monitoring by satellites

P3 AQM Satellite PPTs

Reading materials:

1. A New MODIS C6 Dark Target and Deep Blue Merged Aerosol Product on a 3 km Spatial Grid
   
2. Global Validation of MODIS C6 and C6.1 Merged Aerosol Products over Diverse Vegetated Surfaces
   
3. A Simplified high resolution MODIS Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm (SARA) for use over mixed surfaces
   
4. New customized methods for improvement of the MODIS C6 Dark Target and Deep Blue merged aerosol product
   
5. Validation and accuracy assessment of a Simplified Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm (SARA) over Beijing under low and high aerosol loadings and dust storms
   
6. Evaluation of MODIS aerosol retrieval algorithms over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during low to very high pollution events
   
7. A New Approach for Estimation of Fine Particulate Concentrations Using Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth and Binning of Meteorological Variables
   

P4: Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS)

P4 AQM CEMS PPTs

Reading materials:

1. Requirement for Installation of an Automatic Instrument or Equipment to Measure  Quality of Air Emissions from Stacks​
2. Continuous Emission Monitoring System of Thailand
3. CEMS Information and Guidelines​​​
   

P5: Overview of emission inventory development process and emission factors

P5_AQM_EI_Overview PPTs

Reading materials:

1. What is emission inventory 
2. Emission Inventory

P6: Emission Inventory Tools

P6_EI_Tools PPTs

Reading materials:

1. ABC Emission Inventory Manual 

P7: Source apportionment of emissions of air pollutants

​P7_AQM_Source Apportionment PPTs

Reading materials:

1. Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) Model for environmental data analyse
2. Chemical Mass Balance (CMB) Model
3. Unmix 6.0 Model for environmental data analyses
4. Principal Component Analysis/Absolute Principal Component Analysis (PCA/APCS)

P8: Overview of air quality modeling

P8_AQ Modeling Overvie

Reading materials:

1. ​Daniel Jacob Chemical Transport Models
2. Chemical Transport Model​
3. Introduction to atmospheric chemical transport models​
   

P9: Applications of Chemical Transport and Photo Chemical Models in air quality management

P9_AQ Modeling Applications

Reading materials: 

1. Whole Atmospheric Community Climate Models​
   
2. ECCAD
3. BenMAP user manual 2021​​

P10: Air pollution forecasting with focus on PM2.5

​P10_Pollution Forecasting

Reading materials:

1. WRF–ARW Online Tutorial
2. Forecasting Air Pollution Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Using Machine Learning Regression Models
   

P11: Overview of air pollution impact assessment

P11_Overview Impact Assessment

Reading Materials:

1. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and PTT Public Company Limited. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines for Business Project Development in ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). February 2019
   
2. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Environmental Impact Assessment in Thailand. 3rd eds. August 2015
   
3. Franco DiGiovanni and Miguel Coutinho. Guiding Principles for Air Quality Assessment Components of Environmental Impact Assessments. International Association for Impact Assessment. February, 2017
4. Shen. Assessment of air pollution impact. In Atmospheric Environment, 1986, 20(10): 2039-204. 5. Clark A.1., McIntyre, A.E. Lester, J.N. and Perry, R. Air quality impact assessment. Environ Monitoring Assessment. 1984, 4(3):205-32.

P12: Impact assessment of air pollution on health

P12_HIA of air pollution

Reading materials: 

P13: Co-benefits of air pollution emission reduction

P13_Co-benefits

Reading materials:

1. IGES_Cities Training Curriculum_Feb 2021 (pdf in P13 folder) 2. Co-benefits of climate mitigation on air quality and human health in Asian countries
   
2. ​Asian Co-benefits Partnership White Paper 2018 Quantifying Co-benefits in Asia: Methods and Applications​
   
3. Governance for Integrated Solutions to Sustainable Development and Climate Change: From Linking Issues to Aligning Interests​​
   
4. Determinants of Energy Savings in Indonesia: the case of LED lighting in Bogor
   
5. Low Carbon Paratransit in Jakarta, Indonesia: Using econometric models to improve the enabling environment
   
6. Filling Environmental Data Gaps for SDG 11: A Survey of Japanese and Philippines Cities with Recommendations​​
   

P14: Perspectives on air pollution mitigation strategies and actions in Asia

P14_Mitigation Policies

Reading materials:

1. Guidance Framework for Better Air Quality in Asian Cities
2. IBAQ Programme Learning Portal and City Solutions Toolkit
3. Mainstreaming air quality in urban development
4. Primer on Cost-Benefits
5. Improving air quality monitoring in Asia
6. Promoting Fiscal Policies to Improve Fuel Economy in the Philippines
7. Jeepney Study
8. Promoting NMT in Asian Cities​
   

P15: Air pollution and climate change linkages

P15_AP-CC Linkages

Reading materials:

1. Co-control of air pollution and surface air temperature
2. Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone
3. CCAC
4. Lab homepage
5. SPRINTARS homepage

P16: The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning -Integrated Benefits

P16_LEAP-IBC

Reading materials:

1. Development of the Low Emissions Analysis Platform – Integrated Benefits Calculator (LEAP-IBC) tool to assess air quality and climate co-benefits: Application for Bangladesh
2. Mitigating the impacts of air pollutants in Nepal and climate co-benefits: a scenario-based approach 

P17: Clean air measures for Asia-Pacific region

P17_Clean Air Measures

Reading materials:

1. Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based solutions (summary) 
2. Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based solutions (full report) 

P18: National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) of India (TBC)

P18_NCAP India

Reading materials:

1. National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)