Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/S012044/1
New approaches for understanding vehicle emissions using remote sensing
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor DC Carslaw, University of York, Chemistry
- Grant held at:
- University of York, Chemistry
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Environment & Health
- Air pollution
- Pollution
- Air pollution
- Abstract:
- Despite the intense recent focus on vehicle emissions - and especially emissions of NOx, there remains considerable uncertainty over the robustness of the underlying data. Of particular importance is the uncertainty of the source contributions of different vehicles, which has many implications for local to regional direct and indirect impacts of NOx emissions. For example, policies at the local (city) scale may be misguided, ineffective and costly if certain vehicles are wrongly targeted based on poorly characterised emissions information. Similarly, underestimates of total road transport emissions will lead to erroneous modelling of regional-scale pollutants such as ozone and secondary particulate. The primary focus of this project is therefore the development of new, flexible methodologies using an unprecedented amount of new data to generate emission factors based on remote sensing data for species including NOx, NO2, CO, HC, PM and NH3. The project will exploit the large amount of recent remote sensing (RS) measurement data available. These data include 250,000 measurements from Ricardo (CASE partner) made over 2017/2018 and new measurements to be made at the University York using an Opus RS instrument as part of this PhD project. The Opus instrument will be available at York from June 2018 as part of NERC capital investment. Additional measurements (~50,000) made by York are also available from the use of the University of Denver instrument that York has leased over the past year. Moreover, the project partners (the ICCT and IVL) will provide access to other European campaign data from Sweden, Switzerland and Spain. The data from these other organisations will provide around an additional 1 million valid emission measurements. Together, these data sets represent the most comprehensive data on real-world emissions data available in the UK, or indeed Europe, to form a robust platform from which to derive new insights.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/S012044/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- DfT Studentship
This training grant award has a total value of £89,114
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Fees | Total - RTSG | Total - Student Stipend |
|---|---|---|
| £17,480 | £11,000 | £60,637 |
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