Search Results - "Alessandra De Marco"

High spatial resolution ozone risk-assessment for Asian forests by Marco, Alessandra De, Anav, Alessandro, Sicard, Pierre, Feng, Zhaozhong, Paoletti, Elena

“…Background tropospheric ozone (O3) is increasing particularly over China and India, and becomes a major threat to Asian forests. By using the coupled WRF-Chem…”
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Trends in tropospheric ozone concentrations and forest impact metrics in Europe over the time period 2000–2014 by Proietti, Chiara, Fornasier, Maria Francesca, Sicard, Pierre, Anav, Alessandro, Paoletti, Elena, De Marco, Alessandra

“…In Europe, tropospheric ozone pollution appears as a major air quality issue, and ozone concentrations remain potentially harmful to vegetation. In this study…”
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Spatiotemporal variations of ozone exposure and its risks to vegetation and human health in Cyprus: an analysis across a gradient of altitudes by Agathokleous, Stefanos, Saitanis, Costas J., Savvides, Chrysanthos, Sicard, Pierre, Agathokleous, Evgenios, De Marco, Alessandra

“…Ground-level ozone (O 3 ) affects vegetation and threatens environmental health when levels exceed critical values, above which adverse effects are expected…”
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Economic impacts of ambient ozone pollution on wood production in Italy by Sacchelli, Sandro, Carrari, Elisa, Paoletti, Elena, Anav, Alessandro, Hoshika, Yasutomo, Sicard, Pierre, Screpanti, Augusto, Chirici, Gherardo, Cocozza, Claudia, De Marco, Alessandra

“…Worldwide, tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) is a potential threat to wood production, but our understanding of O 3 economic impacts on forests is still limited. To…”
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Testing visible ozone injury within a Light Exposed Sampling Site as a proxy for ozone risk assessment for European forests by Sicard, Pierre, Hoshika, Yasutomo, Carrari, Elisa, De Marco, Alessandra, Paoletti, Elena

“…Biologically meaningful and cost-effective indicators are needed for assessing and monitoring the impacts of tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) on vegetation and are…”
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Epidemiological derivation of flux-based critical levels for visible ozone injury in European forests by Sicard, Pierre, De Marco, Alessandra, Carrari, Elisa, Dalstein-Richier, Laurence, Hoshika, Yasutomo, Badea, Ovidiu, Pitar, Diana, Fares, Silvano, Conte, Adriano, Popa, Ionel, Paoletti, Elena

“…The European MOTTLES project set-up a new-generation network for ozone (O 3 ) monitoring in 17 plots in France, Italy and Romania. These monitoring stations…”
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Flux-Based Ozone Risk Assessment for a Plant Injury Index (PII) in Three European Cool-Temperate Deciduous Tree Species by Yasutomo Hoshika, Elisa Carrari, Barbara Mariotti, Sofia Martini, Alessandra De Marco, Pierre Sicard, Elena Paoletti

“…This study investigated visible foliar ozone (O3) injury in three deciduous tree species with different growth patterns (indeterminate, Alnus glutinosa (L.)…”
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Amplified ozone pollution in cities during the COVID-19 lockdown by Sicard, Pierre, De Marco, Alessandra, Agathokleous, Evgenios, Feng, Zhaozhong, Xu, Xiaobin, Paoletti, Elena, Rodriguez, José Jaime Diéguez, Calatayud, Vicent

“…The effect of lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on air pollution in four Southern European cities (Nice, Rome, Valencia and Turin) and…”
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Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades by Sicard, Pierre, Agathokleous, Evgenios, De Marco, Alessandra, Paoletti, Elena, Calatayud, Vicent

“…Background The paper presents an overview of air quality in the 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (previous EU-28), from…”
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Projected global ground-level ozone impacts on vegetation under different emission and climate scenarios by Sicard, Pierre, Anav, Alessandro, De Marco, Alessandra, Paoletti, Elena

“…The impact of ground-level ozone (O3) on vegetation is largely under-investigated at the global scale despite large areas worldwide that are exposed to high…”
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Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China by Feng, Zhaozhong, De Marco, Alessandra, Anav, Alessandro, Gualtieri, Maurizio, Sicard, Pierre, Tian, Hanqin, Fornasier, Francesca, Tao, Fulu, Guo, Anhong, Paoletti, Elena

“…China's economic growth has significantly increased emissions of tropospheric ozone (O3) precursors, resulting in increased regional O3 pollution. We analyzed…”
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Should we see urban trees as effective solutions to reduce increasing ozone levels in cities? by Sicard, Pierre, Agathokleous, Evgenios, Araminiene, Valda, Carrari, Elisa, Hoshika, Yasutomo, De Marco, Alessandra, Paoletti, Elena

“…Outdoor air pollution is considered as the most serious environmental problem for human health, associated with some million deaths worldwide per year. Cities…”
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Corrosion on cultural heritage buildings in Jordan in current situation and in future climate scenarios by Sorrentino, Beatrice, Screpanti, Augusto, De Marco, Alessandra

“…This study examines the impact of air pollution on Jordan’s cultural heritage sites, focusing on key pollutants (SO 2 , HNO 3 , O 3 , PM10) and climate…”
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Decrease in surface ozone concentrations at Mediterranean remote sites and increase in the cities by Sicard, Pierre, De Marco, Alessandra, Troussier, Fabien, Renou, Camille, Vas, Nicolas, Paoletti, Elena

“…Analyzing hourly ozone data from 214 European background sites over the time period 2000–2010, we demonstrated for the first time that the ozone control…”
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An epidemiological assessment of stomatal ozone flux-based critical levels for visible ozone injury in Southern European forests by Sicard, Pierre, De Marco, Alessandra, Dalstein-Richier, Laurence, Tagliaferro, Francesco, Renou, Camille, Paoletti, Elena

“…Southern forests are at the highest ozone (O3) risk in Europe where ground-level O3 is a pressing sanitary problem for ecosystem health. Exposure-based…”
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High spatial resolution WRF-Chem model over Asia: Physics and chemistry evaluation by Sicard, Pierre, Crippa, Paola, De Marco, Alessandra, Castruccio, Stefano, Giani, Paolo, Cuesta, Juan, Paoletti, Elena, Feng, Zhaozhong, Anav, Alessandro

“…The representation of air quality and meteorology over Asia remains challenging for chemical transport models as a result of the complex interactions between…”
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Food choices, health and environment: Effects of cutting Europe's meat and dairy intake by Westhoek, Henk, Lesschen, Jan Peter, Rood, Trudy, Wagner, Susanne, De Marco, Alessandra, Murphy-Bokern, Donal, Leip, Adrian, van Grinsven, Hans, Sutton, Mark A., Oenema, Oene

“…•We model the effect of halving meat and dairy consumption on health and environment.•Halving meat and dairy lowers saturated fat intake to the maximum…”
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Predicting the effect of ozone on vegetation via linear non-threshold (LNT), threshold and hormetic dose-response models by Agathokleous, Evgenios, Belz, Regina G., Calatayud, Vicent, De Marco, Alessandra, Hoshika, Yasutomo, Kitao, Mitsutoshi, Saitanis, Costas J., Sicard, Pierre, Paoletti, Elena, Calabrese, Edward J.

“…The nature of the dose-response relationship in the low dose zone and how this concept may be used by regulatory agencies for science-based policy guidance and…”
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Impacts of air pollution on human and ecosystem health, and implications for the National Emission Ceilings Directive: Insights from Italy by De Marco, Alessandra, Proietti, Chiara, Anav, Alessandro, Ciancarella, Luisella, D'Elia, Ilaria, Fares, Silvano, Fornasier, Maria Francesca, Fusaro, Lina, Gualtieri, Maurizio, Manes, Fausto, Marchetto, Aldo, Mircea, Mihaela, Paoletti, Elena, Piersanti, Antonio, Rogora, Michela, Salvati, Luca, Salvatori, Elisabetta, Screpanti, Augusto, Vialetto, Giovanni, Vitale, Marcello, Leonardi, Cristina

“…Across the 28 EU member states there were nearly half a million premature deaths in 2015 as a result of exposure to PM2.5, O3 and NO2. To set the target for…”
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Assessment of the Damage from Hydrogen Pipeline Explosions on People and Buildings by Russo, Paola, De Marco, Alessandra, Parisi, Fulvio

“…Failure of a pipeline carrying gaseous hydrogen can have several effects, some of which can pose a significant threat of harm to people and damage to buildings…”
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