Project Leader(s): Professor Margaret Bell
Sponsors: British Council
Partners: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State University, USA; Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, India
External Website: http://www.britishcouncil.org/eumd-pmi2-about.htm
Start/end dates: March 2011 – March 2012
Contact: margaret.bell@ncl.ac.uk
PMI2 Newcastle, funded by the British Council’s Prime Minister’s Initiative for International Education (PMI2), was a collaboration between Newcastle University (Civil Engineering and Geosciences) and The Pennsylvania State University (Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences). The proposed initiative investigated the important urban interactions of land transport and natural vegetation.
The project also involved IIT Delhi (Centre for Atmospheric Sciences) as an allied partner with their contributions to the collaborative research on Urban Heat Island mitigation. This offered a global appreciation of the range of changing urban environment types across three contrasting countries - UK, US and India. Newcastle University mainly contributed to knowledge development on enhancing realism in the anthropogenic emissions inventory applied to meso-scale modelling tools.
Tiwary, A., Robins, A., Namdeo, A. and Bell, M. (2011) "Air flow and concentration fields at urban road intersections for improved understanding of personal exposure", Environment International, Volume 37, Issue 5, pp 1005-1018. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2011.02.006
Tiwary, A., Namdeo A., Dore, A.J. and Bell, M.C. (2011) "Aerosol loading in an urban environment from a biofuel based CHP plant: assessment and mitigation", Procedia Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, pp 71-75.