The workshop “Black Carbon in Colombia” was held 28-30 November 2018 at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia. The workshop gathered 46 participants from Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Sweden.
The presentations given are available as PDF:s in the list below.
Introduction
- Air Quality – Cali Región (G Restrepo) (1.5 MB, pdf)
- Monitoring Equipment for Black Carbon (JJ Vivas Moreno) (976 kB, pdf)
- Short lived climate pollutants (P Krecl) (473 kB, pdf)
- Summary from the IPCC expert meeting on SLCFs (N Rojas) (306 kB, pdf)
Session 1: Monitoring BC
- Methods and instruments
- How to assure quality control
- BC in relation to EC and other metrics
- Filter-based optical instruments for BC determination (P Krecl) (419 kB, pdf)
- Some experiences from BC measurements in Sweden (C Johansson) (1.5 MB, pdf)
- BC concentrations alongside bike-paths and sidewalks in Bogotá (J F Franco) (2.6 MB, pdf)
- Monitoring BC Valle de Aburrá (M Gómez Marin) (1.6 MB, pdf)
- Ongoing studies about Black Carbon and PAH monitoring in Manizales (B Aristizábal) (1.6 MB, pdf)
- Experiences in BC monitoring in Chile (F Reyes) (709 kB, pdf)
- The Black Carbon network in Mexico (L G Ruiz Suárez) (827 kB, pdf)
Session 2: Non-traffic sources to BC
- Experiences of identification
- How to monitor the source (siting, etc)
- Emission estimations, source contributions
- Development of an emission inventory of PM2.5 and BC: A pilot study in Londrina, Brazil (I Charres) (2.1 MB, pdf)
- Impact of biomass burning on BC (C Johansson) (3.1 MB, pdf)
- Integrated responses to short-lived climate forcers promoting clean energy and energy efficiency: residential wood combustion (L G Ruiz Suárez) (417 kB, pdf)
- Particulate matter and black carbon concentrations during the biomass burning season in the Llanos savannas (J Hernández) (2.6 MB, pdf)
- The CACIQUE campaign: Understanding the role of sugar cane agriculture on air pollution in the Cauca River Valley, Columbia (R Jiménez) (1.6 MB, pdf)
- National BC inventories: Possible to use the IPCC methodology? (L G Ruiz Suárez) (493 kB, pdf)
Session 3: Traffic as a BC source
- Emission factors: where and how to find
- Traffic data (volumem fleet composition, where and how to find)
- How to monitor and validate emission factors
- Traffic as a BC source (M Gómez Marin) (1.6 MB, pdf)
- Monitoring and validating emission factors using CO2 (C Johansson) (1.6 MB, pdf)
- Determination of black carbon emission factors under real-world driving conditions, using fixed-site measurements (P Krecl) (892 kB, pdf)
- Assessment of Black Carbon concentrations and emission sources in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil (L Gidhagen (1.5 MB, pdf)
- Aerosol Black Carbon - Magee Scientific (added presentation by R Rozo López, Inteccon Inc.) (3.0 MB, pdf)
- Coastal Blue Carbon (added presentation y M L Palacios Peñaranda) (10.6 MB, pdf)
Session 4: Modeling BC
- Experiences setting up (boundary conditions, emission sources)
- Integrated analysis of model results and monitored concentrations (for validation, source contribution, emission factor determination, etc)
- Understanding the impacts of biomass burning in Northern South Amaerica savannas using Lagrangian simulations (J Hernández) (2.5 MB, pdf)
- Simulated source contributions to PM2.5 in Santiago and in the central region of Chile (J Langner) (2.4 MB, pdf)
- Dispersion modelling of BC – comparison with measurements in Stockholm (C Johansson) (1.0 MB, pdf)
- Impact assessment of PM and BC emissions from residential wood combustion in Osorno, Chile (L Gidhagen) (671 kB, pdf)