Title
Vertical emission profiles for Europe based on plume rise calculations
Author
Bieser, J.
Aulinger, A.
Matthias, V.
Quante, M.
Denier Van Der Gon, H.A.C.
Publication year
2011
Abstract
The vertical allocation of emissions has a major impact on results of Chemistry Transport Models. However, in Europe it is still common to use fixed vertical profiles based on rough estimates to determine the emission height of point sources. This publication introduces a set of new vertical profiles for the use in chemistry transport modeling that were created from hourly gridded emissions calculated by the SMOKE for Europe emission model. SMOKE uses plume rise calculations to determine effective emission heights. Out of more than 40 000 different vertical emission profiles 73 have been chosen by means of hierarchical cluster analysis. These profiles show large differences to those currently used in many emission models. Emissions from combustion processes are released in much lower altitudes while those from production processes are allocated to higher altitudes. The profiles have a high temporal and spatial variability which is not represented by currently used profiles. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Subject
Earth & Environment
CAS - Climate, Air and Sustainability
EELS - Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
Geosciences
Emission height
Point source
Vertical distribution
Vertical emission profiles
Chemistry transport model
Chemistry transport modeling
Combustion pro-cess
Emission height
Emission model
Hierarchical cluster analysis
Plume rise
Point source
Point sources
Production process
Temporal and spatial variability
Vertical distributions
Vertical emission
Vertical profile
Cluster analysis
Hierarchical systems
Models
atmospheric plume
atmospheric pollution
cluster analysis
emission
point source pollution
air monitoring
air pollution
altitude
article
atmospheric transport
climate change
combustion
controlled study
environmental impact assessment
Europe
geographic distribution
mathematical computing
mathematical model
meteorological phenomena
plume
plume dispersion
pollution monitoring
Europe
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TNO identifier
435953
ISSN
0269-7491
Source
Environmental Pollution, 159 (10), 2935-2946
Document type
article