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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10677-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10677-2022
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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

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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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