Lead PI: Dr Will Drysdale, University of York
Summary:
The ‘Port Air Quality Management System’ (PAQman) estimates shipping emissions in ports, by combining real-time automatic identification system data, ship specific data and emissions factors to help port authorities in monitoring compliance with air quality standards.
However, it does not use in-situ air quality measurements and is as such beholden to the emissions factors used in its bottom-up calculations. Using reference grade air quality instrumentation, this project aims to validate the estimates from PAQman, and test low-cost sensors’ ability to improve these estimates by integrating them with PAQman to provide both measured and modelled data on air quality.
