The European Commission funded project, RI-URBANS, has been officially launched with the aim to provide advanced service tools from atmospheric research infrastructures to better assess the air quality in Europe. Coordinated by the Spanish Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) and the University of Helsinki (UHEL), and led by Xavier Querol (IDAEA-CSIC) and Tuukka Petäjä (UHEL), RI-URBANS brings together eleven cities and twenty-eight partners across Europe in its objective of implementing advanced air quality monitoring observations in cities and industrial hotspots.
The RI-URBANS project will focus on nanoparticles and atmospheric particulate matter, their sizes, constituents, sources, and gaseous precursors. Barcelona, together with eight more European cities, will implement a pilot project to monitor air quality and human exposure.
“This is a golden opportunity to apply advanced air quality research to assess the health effects of air pollution and cost-effective policies to reduce it, not only for the conventional air pollutants but also for non-regulated ones”, declared the researcher and RI-URBANS coordinator Xavier Querol.
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