Research team at KTL: Jouni Tuomisto, D.Med.Sc, docent; Juha Pekkanen D.Med.Sc, prof.; Marko Tainio, M.Sc.
Funding period: Years 2006-2008.
Funding: Finnish Environment Institute, Environmental Cluster Programme (years 2006-2009).
Finnish collaboration: Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI ( Helsinki); Finnish Environment Institute SYKE.
Contact person: Jouni Tuomisto, tel. +358-17-201305.
Homepage: http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=202713&lan=en
Background:
The fine particles are one of the biggest environmental health problems in the developed countries. In the earlier KOPRA project (An integrated model for evaluating the emissions, atmospheric dispersion and risks caused by ambient air fine particulate matter, KOPRA, 2002-2005), funded by Ministry of the Environment and National Technology Agency (Tekes) our study group estimated fine particles and precursor gases emissions, dispersion, transformation and health effects in Finland and Europe.
The KOPRA-model used 5 kilometre spatial resolution. From the studies fine particle sources, the traffic and domestic combustion caused together over half of the all fine particles health effects in Finland.
In the PILTTI project the objective is to examine the emissions, dispersion and health effects from these two sectors in spatially finer scale (1 km spatial resolution). In the end of the project the PILTTI-model will be incorporated to KOPRA-model.
Objectives:
The main objectives are: