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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3441-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3441-2017
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Model evaluation paper
| 
19 Sep 2017
Model evaluation paper |
| 19 Sep 2017
Evaluation of high-resolution GRAMM–GRAL (v15.12/v14.8) NOx simulations over the city of Zürich, Switzerland
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Katrin Zink
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Dietmar Oettl
Air Quality Control, Government of Styria, Landhausgasse 7, 8010 Graz, Styria, Austria
Jürg Brunner
Office for Environment and Health protection, City of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Lukas Emmenegger
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Dominik Brunner
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Short summary
We evaluate a new cost-effective method to simulate pollutant dispersion at high resolution on a city-wide domain. The method is based on a catalogue of reference simulations matched to weather observations to produce a sequence of hourly pollution maps. A total of 2 years of simulations are compared with continuous measurements and passive NO2 samplers in the city of Zurich. Spatial and temporal variability proved to be very well reproduced by the method.
We evaluate a new cost-effective method to simulate pollutant dispersion at high resolution on a...
