Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6303-2020
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

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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.
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