Regional-scale modelling for the assessment of atmospheric particulate matter concentrations at rural background locations in Europe

Gašparac, Goran; Jeričević, Amela; Kumar, Prashant; Grisogono, Branko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6395-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6395-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6395-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

Research article

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04 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 04 Jun 2020

Regional-scale modelling for the assessment of atmospheric particulate matter concentrations at rural background locations in Europe

Goran Gašparac, Amela Jeričević, Prashant Kumar, and Branko Grisogono

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6395-2020-supplement

Data sets

AirBase EEA https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/airbase-the-european-air-quality-database-7

Sounding data University of Wyoming http://www.weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Ogimet G. B. Valor and D. J. M. G. López https://www.ogimet.com

Model code and software

EMEP Meteorological Synthesizing Centre - West (MSC-W) https://www.emep.int/mscw/mscw_models.html

WRF-Chem NOAA/ESRL/GDA https://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem/

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Two different available air quality modelling systems were used to investigate physical and chemical processes that contributed to increased daily background PM₁₀ in all of Europe (focusing on eastern and central Europe). Differentiation of modelling performance in respect to the terrain height was found. A strong influence of meteorological conditions on increased background PM₁₀ and statically stable atmospheric conditions were recognized as a key factor in the build-up of background PM₁₀.