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INTERCOMPARISON, SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS BETWEEN DIFFERENT URBAN DISPERSION MODELS APPLIED TO AN AIR QUALITY ACTION PLAN IN TUSCANY, ITALY
Paolo Giambini
; Dipartimento di Energetica “Sergio Stecco”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Matteo Carpentieri
; EnFlo, University of Surrey, Guildford, Uk
Andrea Corti
; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
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The Tuscan Regional Administration funded project MoDiVaSET-2 (MOdellistica DIffusionale per la VAlutazione di
Scenari Emissivi in Toscana 2) was established in order to develop a decision support modelling system for implementing the Air
Quality Action Plan for the metropolitan area of Florence, Prato and Pistoia. The objective of the work is to build an integrated
meteorological and dispersion models for simulating and evaluating different future emission scenarios of PM10, NOx and NO2 in
the study area. With this purpose, the project included several 1-year long dispersion modelling applications and a detailed
evaluation study, including sensitivity, validation and uncertainty analysis. Several dispersion models (ADMS-Urban, CALPUFF,
CALINE4, SAFE AIR II and CALGRID) were applied and evaluated against monitoring data; the intercomparison between
different models is crucial in order to develop reliable modelling techniques.
The obtained results point out the importance of including the following critical factors: smaller scale effects (monitoring stations
are often located in complex environments; this implies a decrease in the effectiveness of validation studies) and secondary
pollution (primary PM10 levels are only a small part of the total PM10 concentrations; much of the urban PM10 is actually produced
by chemical transformations and other physical mechanisms, for example, resuspension).
In order to understand the weight of these issues, further modelling options (full chemistry and street canyon simulations) were
investigated by using CAMx and smaller scale nested models.
All the factors listed above affected the evaluation work. However, this does not alter the validity of the scenario analysis, because it
is based on the differences between calculated primary pollutants concentrations.
Ključne riječi
Urban air quality model; model evaluation; uncertainty; validation; scenario analysis
Hrčak ID:
64316
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Datum izdavanja:
12.12.2008.
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