New on this Web site

May 10, 2002

• R. Mechler et al.: A methodology to estimate changes in statistical life expectancy due to the control of particulate matter air pollution. IIASA Interim Report IR-02-035.

• Workshop announcement: CITY-DELTA: An intercomparison of urban dispersion models. IIASA, June 24-25, 2002

October 17, 2001

• Workshop announcement: Uncertainty Treatment in Integrated Assessment Models. IIASA, January 24-25, 2002

August 13, 2001

• Joint CIAM/CCE REPORT 1/2001 prepared for the EMEP Steering Body Session in September 2001:
  From Economic Activities to Ecosystem Protection in Europe - An Uncertainty Analysis of Two Scenarios of the RAINS Integrated Assessment Model

• Anke Lükewille et al.: A Framework to Estimate the Potential and Costs for the Control of Fine Particulate Emissions in Europe.   IIASA Interim Report, IR-01-023, July 2001

• R. Suutari et al.: From Economic Activities to Critical Load Exceedances in Europe - An Uncertainty Analysis of Two Scenarios of the RAINS Integrated Assessment Model Background paper for the UN/ECE Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modeling (Brussels, May 14-16, 2001)

• The new RAINS-Asia Web site announcing the release of the new RAINS-Asia (Version 7.5) CD-ROM .

• The RAINS PM Web module has been revised and extended to include the costs of emission control.

• First version of the RAINS PM Web module is now available, giving on-line access to the RAINS particulate matter databases

• Presentations at the AcidRain2000 Conference in Tsukuba.
• A site map to facilitate navigation through the RAINS Web pages

• Markus Amann and Martin Lutz: The revision of the air quality legislation in the European Union related to ground-level ozone. Journal of Hazardous Materials 78(2000)41-62. For reprints contact Margret Gottsleben.

• Presentation slides of the Workshop Potential and Costs for Controlling Primary Emissions of Fine Particulate Matter (IIASA, November 23-24, 2000) available on-line.

• Ulrike Dusek: Secondary Organic Aerosol – Formation Mechanisms and Source Contributions in Europe. IIASA Interim Report, IR-00-066, November 2000 (Work conducted as part of IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Programme in 2000) - Download pdf file (630 kB)

• IIASA appointed as the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM) of the EMEP programme of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

• Workshop announcement: Potential and Costs for Controlling Primary Emissions of Fine Particulate Matter. IIASA, November 23-24, 2000

• The online RAINS Discussion Forum is now available. This discussion group will enable users to review frequently asked questions and the answers to these questions, and post their own questions and comments.

• Workshop announcement: Model intercomparison on Transport of Air Pollutants in Asia. IIASA, September 18-19, 2000

• Z. Klimont, M. Amann, J. Cofala: Estimating Costs for Controlling Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) from Stationary Sources in Europe. An updated documentation of the RAINS VOC module and its databases. IIASA Interim Report, IR-00-051. Download pdf file (249 kB)

• The Council of Environment Ministers of the European Union agreed yesterday on a Common Position on the Directive on National Emission Ceilings. The emission ceilings of the Common Position are available as a scenario in the RAINS On-line Version.

• Finn Forsund (Economics University of Oslo): An Economic Interpretation of the Compensation Mechanism in the RAINS Model. IIASA Interim Report, IR-00-036. Download pdf file (126 kB)

• Max Posch (CCE/RIVM): The Use of Critical Load Databases in RAINS: Methodology to Calculate Exceedances and Gap Closure - A Summary. Download pdf file

• Eighth Interim Report to the European Commission for the Directive on National Emission Ceilings and the EU Ozone Strategy: Cost-effective Control of Acidification and Ground-Level Ozone.
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

• IIASA addresses the control of fine particulate matter: Workplan, first reports, links.

• Further analysis of scenario results obtained with the RAINS model: A second report prepared for the Ministère de L’Aménagement du Territoire et de l’Environment Direction de la Prévention des Pollutions et des Risques, Paris.