Quantifying horizontal and vertical tracer mass fluxes in an idealized valley during daytime

Leukauf, Daniel; Gohm, Alexander; Rotach, Mathias W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13049-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13049-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13049-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

Research article

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21 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 21 Oct 2016

Quantifying horizontal and vertical tracer mass fluxes in an idealized valley during daytime

Daniel Leukauf, Alexander Gohm, and Mathias W. Rotach

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RC1: 'Review of Leukauf et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Jun 2016
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Jul 2016
AC1: 'Response to the Reviewers', Daniel Leukauf, 26 Aug 2016
AC2: 'Revised Paper', Daniel Leukauf, 26 Aug 2016
AC3: 'Revised Paper, changes in red', Daniel Leukauf, 26 Aug 2016

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AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (29 Aug 2016) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Sep 2016) by Bernhard Vogel

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Since populated valleys suffer often from poor air quality, it is of interest to better understand the various mechanisms relevant to remove pollutants from the valley atmosphere. One mechanism is the transport by along-slope flows, which are generated during fair-weather days. In this study we quantify the amount of tracer that is removed from a valley atmosphere and the amount that is re-circulated within the valleys. For this study we are using the numerical weather model WRF.