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Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10677-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10677-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
Research article
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23 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 23 Aug 2022

Evaluation of the WRF and CHIMERE models for the simulation of PM2.5 in large East African urban conurbations

Andrea Mazzeo, Michael Burrow, Andrew Quinn, Eloise A. Marais, Ajit Singh, David Ng'ang'a, Michael J. Gatari, and Francis D. Pope

Data sets

Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations Data (1853-current) MetOffice http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/220a65615218d5c9cc9e4785a3234bd0

Model code and software

A description of the advanced research WRF version 3 W. Skamarock, J. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D. Gill, D. Barker, M. Duda, X. Huang, W. Wang, and J. Powers https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_sources.html

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A modelling system for meteorology and chemistry transport processes, WRF–CHIMERE, has been tested and validated for three East African conurbations using the most up-to-date anthropogenic emissions available. Results show that the model is able to reproduce hourly and daily temporal variabilities in aerosol concentrations that are close to observations in both urban and rural environments, encouraging the adoption of numerical modelling as a tool for air quality management in East Africa.
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