Newsletter
Short-lived Climate Forcers Summary
Expert Workshop on Methane and Black Carbon |
Technical Workshop on Science and Policy of Short-lived Climate Forcers |
Ministerial Meeting on Short-lived Climate Forcers |
Workshop on Use of Biomass for Residential Cooking in Mexico |
Integrated Assessment on SLCF for Mexico |
Meeting in Mexico |
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
UNEP press release: |
INE press release: |
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.
3-12-12
-Are Emissions of Black Carbon from Gasoline Vehicles Underestimated?