A regional air quality forecasting system over Europe: The MACC-II daily ensemble product

This paper describes the pre-operational analysis and forecasting system developed during MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) and continued in the MACC-II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate: Interim Implementation) European projects to provide air quality services for the European continent. This system is based on...

Dynamic model evaluation for secondary inorganic aerosol and its precursors over Europe between 1990 and 2009

In this study we present a dynamic model evaluation of chemistry transport model LOTOS-EUROS (LOng Term Ozone Simulation - EURopean Operational Smog) to analyse the ability of the model to reproduce observed non-linear responses to emission changes and interannual variability of secondary inorganic aerosol (SIA) and its precursors over Europe...

Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

The second phase of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) brought together sixteen modeling groups from Europe and North America, running eight operational online-coupled air quality models over Europe and North America on common emissions and boundary conditions. With the advent of online-coupled models providing...

HTAP_v2.2: A mosaic of regional and global emission grid maps for 2008 and 2010 to study hemispheric transport of air pollution

The mandate of the Task Force Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP) under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) is to improve the scientific understanding of the intercontinental air pollution transport, to quantify impacts on human health, vegetation and climate, to identify emission mitigation options...

De stabiliteit van Nationale emissierapportages. Over hoe emissies uit voorgaande jaren regelmatig toch anders blijken te zijn

Emissieschattingen voor historische jaren veranderen met grote regelmaat. Voor de emissie-experts wellicht vanzelfsprekend, voor een buitenstaander niet: De gemeten temperatuur of NO2-concentratie in bijvoorbeeld 2010 wordt toch ook niet elk jaar herzien? Als gebruiker van deze emissieschattingen is het belangrijk dit te beseffen, vooral wanneer...

TNO-MACC_II emission inventory; a multi-year (2003-2009) consistent high-resolution European emission inventory for air quality modelling

Abstract. Emissions to air are reported by countries to EMEP. The emissions data are used for country compliance checking with EU emission ceilings and associated emission reductions. The emissions data are also necessary as input for air quality modelling. The quality of these “official” emissions varies across Europe. As alternative to these...

Emission factors for alternative drivelines and alternative fuels

Quantification of the urban air pollution increment and its dependency on the use of down-scaled and bottom-up city emission inventories

The impact of large cities on air pollution levels usually is determined with models driven by so-called downscaled emission inventories. This implies that annual emissions of air pollutants at the national scale are spatially distributed over a grid using proxy data like population density. These inventories are frequently used for regional air...

Desire. Development of a system of indicators for a resource efficient europe. D5.1 Inception report

The revised EMEP/EEA Guidebook compared to the country specific inventory system in the Netherlands

Parties to the LRTAP convention have agreed to annually report atmospheric emissions and are required to set up an emission inventory. As a minimum, parties shall use the latest version of the EMEP/EEA Air Pollutant Inventory Guidebook, but most countries - including the Netherlands - have set up their own inventory, which uses country specific...