Description of the uEMEP_v5 downscaling approach for the EMEP MSC-W chemistry transport model

Denby, Bruce Rolstad; Gauss, Michael; Wind, Peter; Mu, Qing; Grøtting Wærsted, Eivind; Fagerli, Hilde; Valdebenito, Alvaro; Klein, Heiko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Model description paper

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11 Dec 2020

Model description paper |

| 11 Dec 2020

Description of the uEMEP_v5 downscaling approach for the EMEP MSC-W chemistry transport model

Bruce Rolstad Denby, Michael Gauss, Peter Wind, Qing Mu, Eivind Grøtting Wærsted, Hilde Fagerli, Alvaro Valdebenito, and Heiko Klein

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020-supplement

Data sets

uEMEP startup configuration and data file for GMD uEMEP model description publication Bruce Rolstad Denby https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3755573

Model code and software

metno/uEMEP: uEMEPv5 Bruce Rolstad Denby https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3756008

Short summary

Air pollution is both a local and a global problem. Since measurements cannot be made everywhere, mathematical models are used to calculate air quality over cities or countries. Modelling over countries limits the level of detail of the models. For countries, the level of detail is only a few kilometres, so air quality at kerb sides is not properly represented. The uEMEP model is used together with the regional air quality model EMEP MSC-W to model details down to kerb side for all of Norway.