Newsletter

Short-lived Climate Forcers Summary

 

Workshops

Expert Workshop on Methane and Black Carbon
January 24-25, 2011


Technical Workshop on Science and Policy of Short-lived Climate Forcers
September 9-10, 2011


Ministerial Meeting on Short-lived Climate Forcers
September 12, 2011


Workshop on Use of Biomass for Residential Cooking in Mexico
October 28, 2011

Meetings

Integrated Assessment on SLCF for Mexico
August 2011

Meeting in Mexico
March 12, 2012

Reports

INE,·"Temas emergentes en el cambio climático: el metano y el carbono negro, posibles co-beneficios y desarrollo de planes de investigación."
Coordinated by L.T. Molina and L.G. Ruiz-Suarez, 2011.

UNEP’s “Near-term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits: Actions for Controlling Short-Lived·Climate Forcers” is available online at:·
http://www.unep.org/pdf/Near_Term_Climate_Protection_&_Air_Benefits.pdf

Summary of UNEP’s··“Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone” is available online at:
http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/BlackCarbon_SDM.pdf

Press

UNEP press release:
Cost-Effective Actions to Cut Black Carbon, Methane and Ground-Level Ozone

INE press release:
UNEP Report on Actions to Cut Black Carbon, Methane and Ground-Level Ozone


Literature

1. Cookstoves
2. Border Studies
3. Black Carbon

Cookstoves

2-29-12
Indoor Respirable Particulate Matter Concentrations from an Open Fire, Improved Cookstove, and LPG/Open Fire Combination in a Rural Guatemalan Community
-Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya
-How Charcoal Fires Heat the World
-Urinary Methoxyphenol Biomarkers and Woodsmoke Exposure: Comparisons in Rural Guatemala with Personal CO and Kitchen CO, Levoglucosan, and PM2.5
-Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in aircraft and laboratory studies
-ES&T Books
-Comparison of Emissions and Residential Exposure from Traditional and Improved Cookstoves in Kenya
-Modeling anthropogenically controlled secondary organic aerosols in a megacity: a simplified framework for global and climate models
-Quantification of Carbon Savings from Improved Biomass Cookstove Projects
-New Approaches to Performance Testing of Improved Cookstoves
-Real-Time Assessment of Black Carbon Pollution in Indian Households Due to Traditional and Improved Biomass Cookstoves
-Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions from Household Biofuel Combustion in China
-Characterization of Non-methane Hydrocarbons Emitted from Various Cookstoves Used in China
-Carbon Monoxide As a Tracer for Assessing Exposures to Particulate Matter in Wood and Gas Cookstove Households of Highland Guatemala
-Emission of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Particulate Matter from Domestic Combustion of Selected Fuels
-Emission Factors and Real-Time Optical Properties of Particles Emitted from Traditional Wood Burning Cookstoves
-Evaluation of Mass and Surface Area Concentration of Particle Emissions and Development of Emissions Indices for Cookstoves in Rural India
-Climate Change Impact of Biochar Cook Stoves in Western Kenyan Farm Households: System Dynamics Model Analysis
-Emissions of Carbonyl Compounds from Various Cookstoves in China

Border Studies

1-3-12
-Principal components-based regionalization of precipitation regimes across the southwest United States and northern Mexico, with an application to monsoon precipitation variability
-The North American Monsoon


11-2-11
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 2008. U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program: Border 2012 A Mid Course Refinement (2008-2012), EPA-909-R-08-003
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 2006.  U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program: Border 2012: Implementation and Mid-Term Report: 2007, EPA-909-R-06-005
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 2007.  Annual Report, 2007 Mexico/USEPA California – Mexico Border Air Monitoring Program Prepared for CARB, 2007.
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2011. BORDER 2020:U.S.-MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, Border 2012: US Mexico Environmental Program, EPA-160-R-03-001.

10-21-11
-Investigation of Low-Wind/High Particulate Matter Episodes in the Imperial Valley/Mexicali Region.
-Application and Evaluation of Two Air Quality Models for Particulate Matter for a Southeastern U.S. Episode.
-Black Carbon and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emissions from Vehicles in the United States - Mexico Border Region: Pilot Study.
-Border 2012: U.S. - Mexico Environmental Program
-Chemical Characterization and Preliminary Source Contribution of Fine Particulate Matter in the Mexicali/Imperial Valley Border Area
-Chocolate Vehicle Emission Measurements on Mexico-US Border Cities: Data Collection Protocol.
-Detection of the urban heat island in Mexicali, B.C., Mexico and it's relationship with land use.
-Development of a United States–Mexico Emissions Inventory for the Big Bend Regional Aerosol and Visibility Observational (BRAVO) Study.
-2009 Imperial County State Implementation Plan for Particulate Matter Less Than 10 Microns in Aerodynamic Diameter.
-Air Quality Information Catalogue for the Mexicali-Imperial Valley Border Region.
-Mesoscale Meteorological Simulations of Summer Ozone Episodes in Mexicali and Monterrey, Mexico: Analysis of Model Sensitivity to Grid Resolution and Parameterization Schemes.
-Mobile Source Emission Estimates using Remote Sensing Data from Mexican Cities
-Modeling the Dynamics of Air Pollutants: Trans-Boundary Impacts in the Mexicali- Imperial Valley Border Region.
-On-Road Emission Measurements of Reactive Nitrogen Compounds from Three California Cities.
-Real-Time Ozone Mapping Using a Regression-Interpolation Hybrid Approach, Applied to Tucson, Arizona.
-Transport of Atmospheric Fine Particulate Matter: Part 1—Findings from Recent Field Programs on the Extent of Regional Transport within North America.
-Communication Strategy of Transboundary Air Pollution Findings in a US–Mexico Border XXI Program Project.

Black Carbon

3-12-12
-Are Emissions of Black Carbon from Gasoline Vehicles Underestimated?