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Ship emissions and air pollution in Denmark - present situation and future scenarios

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Since 2006 the so-called Automatic Identification System (AIS) has registered ship activities in Danish marine waters. All ships larger than 300 GT (Gross Tonnage) are required to carry a transponder, which transmits information on the ship’s identity and position to land-based receiving stations. This information makes it possible to map ship emissions in much greater detail than previously feasible. This opportunity has now been utilised to create a new emission inventory for ships in the Danish marine waters. The new AIS-based inventory of ship emissions has been combined with other necessary data and used as basis for new model calculations of air quality in Denmark. A main objective of this work is to assess the contribution from ships to concentration levels of various pollutants. For the modelling of concentrations, a new version of the air pollution model DEHM (Danish Eulerian Hemispheric Model) has been applied - a version with a higher geographical resolution than the previous version.
StatusAfsluttet
Effektiv start/slut dato01/11/2008 → 31/12/2009

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