Authors
Dominik Brunner, Nicholas Savage, Oriol Jorba, Brian Eder, Lea Giordano, Alba Badia, Alessandra Balzarini, Rocio Baro, Roberto Bianconi, Charles Chemel, Gabriele Curci, Renate Forkel, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, Marcus Hirtl, Alma Hodzic, Luka Honzak, Ulas Im, Christoph Knote, Paul Makar, Astrid Manders-Groot, Erik Van Meijgaard, Lucy Neal, Juan L Pérez, Guido Pirovano, Roberto San Jose, Wolfram Schröder, Ranjeet S Sokhi, Dimiter Syrakov, Alfreida Torian, Paolo Tuccella, Johannes Werhahn, Ralf Wolke, Khairunnisa Yahya, Rahela Zabkar, Yang Zhang, Christian Hogrefe, Stefano Galmarini
Publication date
2015/8/1
Journal
Atmospheric Environment
Volume
115
Pages
470-498
Publisher
Pergamon
Description
Air pollution simulations critically depend on the quality of the underlying meteorology. In phase 2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII-2), thirteen modeling groups from Europe and four groups from North America operating eight different regional coupled chemistry and meteorology models participated in a coordinated model evaluation exercise. Each group simulated the year 2010 for a domain covering either Europe or North America or both. Here were present an operational analysis of model performance with respect to key meteorological variables relevant for atmospheric chemistry processes and air quality. These parameters include temperature and wind speed at the surface and in the vertical profile, incoming solar radiation at the ground, precipitation, and planetary boundary layer heights. A similar analysis was performed during AQMEII phase 1 (Vautard et al., 2012) for …
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