Evaluation of the Cmaq5.0 in the Framework of the Caliope Air Quality Forecasting System over Europe
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Over recent decades, there has been a clear progress across Europe towards reducing anthropogenic emissions (EEA, 2010). However, poor air quality remains an important public health issue, especially in urban environments. Airborne particulate matter (PM), tropospheric ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are the main problematic pollutants in Europe. Accurate air quality forecast system can offer tremendous societal and economics benefits by enabling advanced planning for individuals, organizations, and communities in order to reduce pollutant emissions and their adverse health impacts (Zhang et al., 2012). In this sense, the current European directive 2008/50/EC establishes the possibility of using modeling techniques to assess air quality (EEA, 2011). Several operational air quality forecasting systems already exists for Europe (http://www.chemicalweather.eu). In the Spanish context, the Earth Science Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) has established the CALIOPE air quality system to forecast air pollution (O3, NO2, SO2, and PM10) with high spatial resolution over Europe (12 km x 12 km) and the Iberian Peninsula (4 km x 4 km). The CALIOPE system consists in a set of models (Baldasano et al., 2008): the WRF-ARW meteorological model; the HERMES emission model, the BSC-DREAM8b natural dust model and the CMAQ Chemical Transport Model (CTM).
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