ATMOS

People die prematurely every year due to air pollution, mostly due to car traffic. Green infrastructures can act as PM sinkers, through the deposition and removal of airborne pollutants. ATMOS aimed at quantifying PM retention by trees, developing a new methodology to calculate PM retention, based on volume function and assessing the economic value of the ecosystem service provide by ATMOS evergreen infrastructure.

Category: ENVIRONMENT Country: PROTUGAL Year: 2021

 


Sara Ribeiro Couto


Klára Sofia Varga


João Carlos Pereira Carvalho