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Sensitivity analysis of surface ozone to modified initial and boundary conditions in both rural and industrial zones
N. Castell
nuria@ceam.es
A. F. Stein
R. Salvador
E. Mantilla
M. Millán
Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo, CEAM, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Earth Resources and Technology on assignment to NOAA/Air Resources Lab., Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
A three-dimensional air quality model based on a set of chemical
species mass conservation equations describes the time evolution of chemical
species in the atmosphere. In order to solve this set of equations, proper
choices of initial and boundary conditions are needed.
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Ideally, initial and boundary conditions should be determined on the basis of
observations. However, since such high-resolution observations are generally
not available, it becomes necessary to use other information sources to
specify the initial and boundary values. The fact that both the initial and
the boundary conditions are specified with some degree of presumption makes
it important to evaluate their influence in the model results. In this paper
we present a study of the impact of initial and boundary concentrations on
the modelled surface ozone concentration over two environments: Huelva and
Badajoz, an industrial and a rural zone, respectively. The impacts are
analysed for the same meteorological period (10–15 August 2003).
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