Effective indices for emissions from road transport

Abstract

The local to regional processes of chemical transformations, washout and dry deposition cannot be directly resolved in global scale models, they rather need to be parameterized. A suitable way to account for the non-linearity, e.g., in chemical transformation processes, is the use of effective emission indices (EEI). EEI translate the actual (small scale) emissions into input for global scale models, partially accounting for unresolved processes occurring shortly after the release of the emissions. The emissions from the road traffic have some specifics, because of which the concept of deriving EEI from the interaction of an instantaneous plume with the ambient air is perhaps not so convenient. A new parameterization scheme for the EEI from the road transport is suggested in the present paper. Based on few simplifying assumptions and introducing the adjoin equations approach this new scheme makes it possible to achieve unified, not depending on the specific emission pattern, procedure for calculating the EEI from road traffic. © 2008 Springer.