Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-397-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-397-2024
Research article
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11 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2024

Impact of urbanization on fine particulate matter concentrations over central Europe

Peter Huszar, Alvaro Patricio Prieto Perez​​​​​​​, Lukáš Bartík, Jan Karlický, and Anahi Villalba-Pradas

Model code and software

RegCM-NH V5 code (5.0.0) Filippo Giorgi et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7548172

The Regional Climate Model version 4.7 source code (provided by Graziano Giuliani) ICTP https://github.com/ICTP/RegCM

CAMx version 7.10 Ramboll https://www.camx.com/download/

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Urbanization transforms rural land into artificial land, while due to human activities, it also introduces a great quantity of emissions. We quantify the impact of urbanization on the final particulate matter pollutant levels by looking not only at these emissions, but also at the way urban land cover influences meteorological conditions, how the removal of pollutants changes due to urban land cover, and how biogenic emissions from vegetation change due to less vegetation in urban areas.
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