Publications
Publications
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Spatial attenuation of ambient particulate matter air pollution within an urbanised native forest patch
- Authors
- Peyman Zawar-Reza, J.G. Wilson, J.-A.E. Cavanagh
- Journal
- Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
- Year
- 2009
- Of interest to researchers and urban planners is the effect of urban forests on concentrations of ambient air pollution. Although estimates of the attenuation effect of urban vegetation on levels of a...
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Every breath you take? Environmental justice and air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Authors
- Simon Kingham, Peyman Zawar-Reza, J. Pearce
- Journal
- Environment and Planning A
- Year
- 2006
- In a number of environmental-justice studies it has been noted that the exposure to an array of air pollutants varies between different social groups. This inequality in exposure is one possible expla...
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Intraurban-scale dispersion modelling of particulate matter concentrations: Applications for exposure estimates in cohort studies
- Authors
- Peyman Zawar-Reza, J. Gaines Wilson
- Journal
- Atmospheric Environment
- Year
- 2006
- Epidemiological studies relating air pollution to health effects often estimate personal exposure to particulate matter using values from a central ambient monitoring site as a proxy. However, when th...
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The surface wind field during winter smog nights in Christchurch and coastal Canterbury, New Zealand
- Authors
- Andy Sturman, M. Kossmann
- Journal
- International Journal of Climatology
- Year
- 2004
- In Christchurch and other Canterbury towns on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, poor dispersion conditions and high emissions of particulate matter and carbon monoxide regularly lead to th...
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