European Air Quality Maps for 2016
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Eionet Report - ETC/ACM 2018/8 European air quality maps for 2016 PM10, PM2.5, Ozone, NO2 and NOx spatial estimates and their uncertainties April 2019 Authors: Jan Horálek, Markéta Schreiberová, Frank de Leeuw, Pavel Kurfürst, Peter de Smet, Jana Schovánková ETC/ACM consortium partners: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Aether, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (CSIC/IDAEA), EMISIA, Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Öko-Institute, Öko-Recherche, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Universitat Autónoma de Barcalona (UAB), Umweltbundesamt Wien (UBA-V), Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), 4sfera Innova Cover photo – Concentration map of PM10 indicator 90.4 percentile of daily means for the year 2016. Spatially interpolated concentration field. Units: µg·m-3. 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Authors Jan Horálek, Markéta Schreiberová, Pavel Kurfürst, Jana Schovánková: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI, CZ) Peter de Smet, Frank de Leeuw: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, NL) European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation PO Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands Tel.: +31 30 274 8562 Fax: +31 30 274 4433 Web: http://acm.eionet.europa.eu Email: [email protected] 2 Eionet Report - ETC/ACM 2018/8 Contents Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................... 5 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 9 2 PM10 .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 PM10 annual average ......................................................................................................................... 11 2.1.1 Concentration map ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.1.1 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 12 2.2 PM10 – 90.4 percentile of daily means .............................................................................................. 14 2.2.1 Concentration map ..................................................................................................................... 15 2.2.2 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 15 3 PM2.5 ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 3.1 PM2.5 annual average ......................................................................................................................... 19 3.1.1 Concentration map ..................................................................................................................... 19 3.2.2 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 20 4 Ozone ........................................................................................................................................................ 23 4.1 Ozone – 93.2 percentile of maximum daily 8-hour means ............................................................... 23 4.1.1 Concentration map ..................................................................................................................... 23 4.1.2 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 24 4.2 Ozone – SOMO35 .............................................................................................................................. 26 4.2.1 Concentration map ..................................................................................................................... 27 4.2.2 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 27 4.3 Ozone – AOT40 vegetation and AOT40 forests ................................................................................. 29 4.3.1 Concentration maps ................................................................................................................... 30 4.3.2 Vegetation exposure .................................................................................................................. 32 5 NO2 and NOx ............................................................................................................................................. 35 5.1 NO2 – Annual mean ........................................................................................................................... 35 5.1.1 Concentration maps ................................................................................................................... 35 5.1.2 Population exposure................................................................................................................... 36 5.2 NOx – Annual mean ........................................................................................................................... 38 5.2.1 Concentration maps ................................................................................................................... 38 6 Exposure trend estimates ......................................................................................................................... 41 6.1 Mapping and exposure results .......................................................................................................... 41 6.1.1 Human health PM10 indicators ................................................................................................... 41 6.2.1 Human health PM2.5 indicator .................................................................................................... 42 6.3.1 Human health ozone indicators ................................................................................................. 43 6.4.1 Vegetation and forest ozone indicators ..................................................................................... 44 6.5.1 Human health NO2 indicators ..................................................................................................... 45 Eionet Report - ETC/ACM 2018/8 3 References ................................................................................................................................................... 47 Annex 1 – Methodology .............................................................................................................................. 51 A1.1 Mapping method ......................................................................................................................... 51 A1.2 Calculation of population and vegetation exposure ................................................................... 53 A1.3 Methods for uncertainty analysis ................................................................................................ 55 Annex 2 – Input data ................................................................................................................................... 59 A2.1 Air quality monitoring data ......................................................................................................... 59 A2.2 EMEP MSC-W model output ....................................................................................................... 61 A3.3 Other supplementary data ...................................................................................................... 62 Annex 3 – Technical details and mapping uncertainties ............................................................................. 65 A3.1 PM10 ................................................................................................................................................. 65 A3.2 PM2.5 ................................................................................................................................................ 70 A3.3 Ozone .............................................................................................................................................. 74 A3.4 NO2 and NOx .................................................................................................................................... 80 Annex 4 – Inter-annual changes .................................................................................................................