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MEGAPOLI: concept of multi-scale modelling of megacity impact on air quality and climate
1Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Lyngbyvej 100, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
2Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Germany
3Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Hellas, University of Patras, Greece
4ARIANET Consulting, Italy
5Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece
6Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
7Laboratory Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), France
8Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), France
9Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
10Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy
11International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
12King's College London (KCL), UK
13Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Norway
14Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway
15Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland
16TNO-Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands
17UK MetOffice (MetO), UK
18University of Hamburg (UHam), Hamburg, Germany
19University of Helsinki (UHel), Finland
20University of Hertfordshire – Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research (UH-CAIR), UK
21University of Stuttgart (UStutt), Germany
22World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland
23Charles University Prague (CUNI), Czech Republic
24Institute of Tropospheric Research (IfT), Germany
25Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge (UCam), UK
Abstract. The EU FP7 Project MEGAPOLI: "Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation" (http://megapoli.info) brings together leading European research groups, state-of-the-art scientific tools and key players from non-European countries to investigate the interactions among megacities, air quality and climate. MEGAPOLI bridges the spatial and temporal scales that connect local emissions, air quality and weather with global atmospheric chemistry and climate. The suggested concept of multi-scale integrated modelling of megacity impact on air quality and climate and vice versa is discussed in the paper. It requires considering different spatial and temporal dimensions: time scales from seconds and hours (to understand the interaction mechanisms) up to years and decades (to consider the climate effects); spatial resolutions: with model down- and up-scaling from street- to global-scale; and two-way interactions between meteorological and chemical processes.
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Citation: Baklanov, A., Lawrence, M., Pandis, S., Mahura, A., Finardi, S., Moussiopoulos, N., Beekmann, M., Laj, P., Gomes, L., Jaffrezo, J.-L., Borbon, A., Coll, I., Gros, V., Sciare, J., Kukkonen, J., Galmarini, S., Giorgi, F., Grimmond, S., Esau, I., Stohl, A., Denby, B., Wagner, T., Butler, T., Baltensperger, U., Builtjes, P., van den Hout, D., van der Gon, H. D., Collins, B., Schluenzen, H., Kulmala, M., Zilitinkevich, S., Sokhi, R., Friedrich, R., Theloke, J., Kummer, U., Jalkinen, L., Halenka, T., Wiedensholer, A., Pyle, J., and Rossow, W. B.: MEGAPOLI: concept of multi-scale modelling of megacity impact on air quality and climate, Adv. Sci. Res., 4, 115-120, doi:10.5194/asr-4-115-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
