The impact of an urban park on air pollution and noise levels in the Mediterranean city of Tel-Aviv, Israel

2014 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pninit Cohen ◽  
Oded Potchter ◽  
Izhak Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mediterranean City

The Microclimatic Effect of Green Infrastructure (GI) in a Mediterranean City: the Case of the Urban Park of Ciutadella (Barcelona, Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Carmen Moreno-García
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Temperature Measurements ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Cooling Intensity ◽  
Urban Cool Island ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean City

The use and promotion of green infrastructure (GI) is of great importance for improving urban climates and for helping cities to be more resilient and sustainable in the context of climate change. For this reason, the effect of urban parks on city climates is of great interest for research. In this study, temperature measurements were made during 14 nights in the winter and spring of 2015 in the largest park of the Mediterranean city of Barcelona, Spain: the Ciutadella Park. The analysis of the measurements made inside the park and in its adjacent urban environment has confirmed the existence of an urban cool island (UCI) with a maximum cooling intensity of 5.2°C (9.4°F) in winter, under anticyclonic situations preferably, and an average cooling intensity of 2.7°C (4.9°F). In the spring months, the urban cool island has an intensity under the average, with a maximum of 2.1°C (3.8°F).

The contribution of shipping to air pollution in the Mediterranean region – a model evaluation study 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Fink ◽  
Volker Matthias ◽  
Matthias Karl ◽  
Ronny Petrik ◽  
Elisa Majamäki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Emission Model ◽  
Ship Emissions ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Impact

<p>Shipping has major contribution to emissions of air pollutants like NOx and SO2 and the global maritime transport volumes are projected to increase significantly. The Mediterranean Sea is a region with dense ship traffic. Air quality observations in many cities along the Mediterranean coast indicate high levels of NO2 and particulate matter with significant contributions from ship emissions.<br>To quantify the current impact of shipping on air pollution, models for ship emissions and atmospheric transport can be applied, but model predictions may differ from observational data. To determine how well regional scale chemistry transport models simulate pollutant concentrations, the model outputs from several regional scale models were compared against each other and to measured data.<br>In the framework of the EU H2020 project SCIPPER, ship emission model STEAM and the regional scale models CMAQ and CHIMERE model were applied on a modelling domain covering the Mediterranean Sea. Modeling results were compared to air quality observations at coastal locations. The impact of shipping in the Mediterranean Sea was extracted from the model excluding shipping emissions.</p><p> </p>

Local determinants of road traffic noise levels versus determinants of air pollution levels in a Mediterranean city

2011 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Foraster ◽  
Alexandre Deltell ◽  
Xavier Basagaña ◽  
Mercedes Medina-Ramón ◽  
Inmaculada Aguilera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Mediterranean City

Algae Window for reducing energy consumption of building structures in the Mediterranean city of Tel-Aviv, Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 109460
Author(s):  
Elad Negev ◽  
Abraham Yezioro ◽  
Mark Polikovsky ◽  
Abraham Kribus ◽  
Joseph Cory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean City ◽  
Reducing Energy

Geoeconomic Leverage of Natural Gas Resources in the Mediterranean

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Economic Influence ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Influence Attempts ◽  
Gas Fields

This article examines the claim that Israel’s natural gas exports from its Mediterranean gas fields will give geopolitical leverage to Tel Aviv over the importing countries. Using the geoeconomic tradition of Klaus Knorr and others who wrote about applying leverage using economic resources to gain geopolitical advantage, it is argued that certain criteria have to be satisfied for economic influence attempts, and that Israel’s gas exports do not satisfy these criteria. They include the importer’s supply vulnerability, the supplier’s demand vulnerability, and the salience of energy as an issue between both countries. Israeli gas exports to Egypt are used as a case study.

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