A5007895723- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
University of Milan
2020-2024
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano
2023-2024
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
2024
In this paper, we applied the Dispersion Normalised Positive Matrix Factorisation (DN-PMF) approach recently proposed in literature to provide a more realistic picture of relative importance emission strength vs. atmospheric dispersion conditions. The disentanglement such effects is great concern pollution hot spots like Po Valley (Italy), where particulate matter limit values are exceeded despite existing abatement measures. To explore potentiality DN-PMF – still scarcely well-chemically...
Particulate Matter (PM) is a complex and heterogeneous mixture of atmospheric particles recognized as threat to human health. Oxidative Potential (OP) measurement promising integrative method for estimating PM-induced health impacts since it more closely associated with adverse effects than ordinarily used PM mass concentrations. OP measurements could be introduced in the air quality monitoring, along parameters currently evaluated. deposition lungs induces oxidative stress, inflammation,...
The RHAPS (Redox-Activity And Health-Effects Of Atmospheric Primary Secondary Aerosol) project was launched in 2019 with the major objective of identifying specific properties fine atmospheric aerosol from combustion sources that are responsible for toxicological effects and can be used as new metrics health-related outdoor pollution studies. In this paper, we present overall methodology introduce phenomenology first data observed. A comprehensive physico-chemical characterization has been...
In the recent decades, advanced instrumentation has been developed to measure atmospheric aerosol's physical-chemical properties with increased temporal detail and size resolution. The characterization of aerosol is now provided at a more detailed level. Nevertheless, it still challenging maximize exploitation such information in receptor models perform reliable source apportionment studies. Indeed, time- size-resolved sampling can, principle, provide additional better identify specific...
Urban textures of the Italian cities are peculiarly shaped by local geography generating similarities among placed in different regions but comparable topographical districts. This suggested following scientific question: can topographies generate significant differences on PM10 chemical composition at urban sites that share similar despite being regions? To investigate whether such communalities be found and applicable Country-scale, we propose here a novel methodological approach. A...
Abstract Radiocarbon measurements on the carbonaceous aerosol fractions are an effective tool for source apportionment. For these measurements, a new sample preparation line (MISSMARPLE: MIlan Small-SaMple Automated Preparation LinE atmospheric aerosol) was built in Milan (Italy). MISSMARPLE can separate different carbon (i.e. total (TC), elemental (EC)), automates combustion processes and CO 2 isolation “combustion line”, designed to handle small samples, of about 50 μg carbon. The obtained...
Background : COVID-19 containment measures curb viral spread but may hamper walking mobility. As a low daily step count is associated with increased noncommunicable diseases and mortality, assessing the relationship between pandemic responses mobility can help trade-off public health measures. We investigated association stringency across 60 countries in period January 21, 2020 2022 modeled how this could impact mortality hazard. Methods Walking was measured through Apple Mobility Trends,...
Abstract. The joint use of hourly resolution sampling and analyses with accelerated ion beams such as Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) technique has allowed the measurement temporal patterns particulate matter (PM) composition at many sites in different parts world. demand within scientific community for this type analysis been continuously increasing recent years, but samplers suitable PIXE are now discontinued and/or suffer from some technical limitations. In framework, a new...
Size-segregated atmospheric aerosol samples collected with cascade impactors can provide valuable information for the study of emission sources and processes, especially when size distributions chemical compounds are retrieved. Nevertheless, such data rare in literature and, available, they often presented as discrete since analysis is not straightforward, thus preventing to retrieve detailed modal structure information. For this reason, all main steps a robust size-segregated illustrated...
The RHAPS project was launched in 2019 with the major objective to identify specific properties of fine atmospheric aerosol from combustion sources that are responsible for toxicological effects and can be used as new metrics health-related outdoor pollution studies. In this paper, we present overall methodology RHAPS, introduce phenomenology first data observed. A comprehensive physico-chemical characterization has been achieved by means high-time resolution measurements (e.g. number size...