Effects of vertical ship exhaust plume distributions on urban pollutant concentration – a sensitivity study with MITRAS v2.0 and EPISODE-CityChem v1.4

Badeke, Ronny; Matthias, Volker; Karl, Matthias; Grawe, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Development and technical paper

|

25 May 2022

Development and technical paper |

| 25 May 2022

Effects of vertical ship exhaust plume distributions on urban pollutant concentration – a sensitivity study with MITRAS v2.0 and EPISODE-CityChem v1.4

Ronny Badeke, Volker Matthias, Matthias Karl, and David Grawe

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022-supplement

Data sets

Mesoskalige und Mikroskalige Modellierung - MeMi University of Hamburg https://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/memi

Model code and software

Vertical ship emission profile parameterization Ronny Badeke https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5675747

City-scale Chemistry Transport Model EPISODE-CityChem Matthias Karl and Martin Ramacher https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3862264

Short summary

For air quality modeling studies, it is very important to distribute pollutants correctly into the model system. This has not yet been done for shipping pollution in great detail. We studied the effects of different vertical distributions of shipping pollutants on the urban air quality and derived advanced formulas for it. These formulas take weather conditions and ship-specific parameters like the exhaust gas temperature into account.