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ADMS-Urban showcases
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ADMS-Urban is applied to a wide range of air quality management, forecasting and policy development studies in cities worldwide. A small selection of ADMS-Urban case studies are described below.
WM-Air project
Annual average NO2 concentrations at 10 m resolution modelled with ADMS-Urban in the UK West Midlands for 2016. Areas exceeding the air quality standard limit of 40 µgm-3 are shown in orange and red. From Zhong et al., 2021.
The West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme (WM-Air) was an initiative funded by the UK’s NERC which considered the relationship between improvements in air quality and the associated health, environmental and economic benefits.
The project involved street-scale air quality modelling using ADMS-Urban to assess pollutant concentrations relating to a base year in addition to a range of emissions scenarios.
The study covered the entire West Midlands Combined Authority region, including many highly-populated urban areas such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall and Sandwell. The study provided evidence to inform policy. Baseline and scenario air quality modelling results have been published (Zhong et al., 2021, Zhong et al., 2024).
City of London
CERC was commissioned by the City of London Corporation to undertake air quality modelling across the City of London in order to assess compliance with air quality standards. The modelling has been carried out annually since 2018 to monitor the progress towards the aim of 90% compliance with the NO2 air quality objective.
Annual average NO2 concentrations modelled with ADMS-Urban in the City of London for 2018 (left) and 2024 (right)
Annual average NO2 concentrations modelled with ADMS-Urban in Oxfordshire for 2023
Oxford
CERC used ADMS-Urban to assess emissions mitigation scenarios from Net Zero policies calculating impacts of pollutants on health outcomes, mortality and associated healthcare costs across Oxfordshire, for Oxfordshire County Council.
Dublin
The Irish EPA commissioned CERC to assess street scale compliance with Irish Air Quality Standards Regulations (AQSR) thresholds for the city of Dublin.
AIRPRO-Beijing
AIR pollution PROcesses in Beijing (AIRPRO) was a scientific research project funded by the UK's NERC. It investigated street-scale variation of pollutant concentration values using measurements from the Atmospheric Pollution and Human Health in a Chinese Megacity (APHH-China) winter measurement campaign. The results were published in Biggart et al., 2020.