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In many urban areas throughout the world, the rising mean and peak levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx) are a concern. Road traffic and local industry are usually the major NOx sources in urban environments, but their relative contributions to the spatial distribution of the NOx volumetric mixing ratio is normally unknown. This missing piece of information is required for designing effective abatement measures to reduce ambient NOx levels. A new method for estimating the shares of which traffic and industry contribute to the mean ambient NOx mixing ratios observed in urban environments is proposed in this paper. The estimation is based on data obtained by routine air pollution monitoring, using a few assumptions about the temporal emission patterns of NOx and SO2 in the area of study. A set of equations is formulated for the unknown industry and traffic contributions to the NOx mixing ratios at each monitoring site. These equations are solved using the gradient projection optimization method. The bootstrap technique is used to estimate the errors in the process. Spatial maps of the separate shares of industry and traffic in the total ambient NOx levels can be obtained where a sufficient aerial coverage of stations is available. An application of the method to the allocation of NOx mixing ratios to traffic and industrial sources in the Haifa Bay area, Israel, is demonstrated. The results are expected to be useful for future planning of traffic thoroughfares and industrial development in the area.

Allocation of Routinely Monitored Mixing Ratios of Nitrogen Oxides to Their Sources