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Open AccessApplication of the CHIMERE-WRF Model Complex to Study the Radiative Effects of Siberian Smoke Aerosol in the Eastern Arctic
We describe a computational technology for studying the effects of the aerosol-radiation interaction and calculating regional estimates of the direct (DRE) and semidirect radiative effects (SDRE) of biomass bu...
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Analysis of Brown Carbon Content and Evolution in Smokes from Siberian Forest Fires Using AERONET Measurements
The content and evolution of brown carbon (BrC) in smokes from Siberian forest fires were analyzed using measurements of the aerosol absorption optical depth (AAOD) at three Russian AERONET stations located in...
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Variations in Surface Concentration of Fine Particulate Matter in Central Regions of the European Part of Russia
The model estimation is presented for the impact of interaction between anthropogenic and biogenic emissions of trace gases and aerosols on the mass concentration of the fine fraction of particulate matter (PM2.5
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Open AccessA 3 °C global RCP8.5 emission trajectory cancels benefits of European emission reductions on air quality
Despite the international agreement to reduce global warming to below 2 °C, the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions submitted for the COP21 would lead to a global temperature rise of about 3 °C. The r...
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Effect of photochemical self-action of carbon-containing aerosol: Wildfires
It has been shown by numerical simulation that the rate of formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) in smoke plumes caused by vegetation and peat fires under real conditions can significantly depend on t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
European Air Quality Simulations in the Context of IMPACT2C, Focus on Aerosol Concentrations
In the context of the IMPACT2C project, one of the objectives is to estimate the pan-European impacts of a global 2-degree increase in temperature on human health, including change in air pollution. Climate ch...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diagnostic Evaluations of the CHIMERE Model: Local Versus Advected Contributions of Fine Particles and Nitrate Formation Regime in the Paris Megacity
Chemistry transport models (CTMs) are a powerful tool to investigate various features of the aerosol pollution in megacities, including its geographical origin or its sensitivity to anthropogenic emissions cha...
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The model study of the wildfire impact on the spatial distribution of deposition of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in Siberia
Presented are the results of the model study of wildfire impact on the spatial distribution of deposition fields of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in the regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East. The CHIMERE...
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Estimation of transboundary transport contribution to the air pollution in the far east region using the chemistry transport model
The CHIMERE mesoscale chemistry transport model is used for the quantitative assessment of the contribution of transboundary transport of anthropogenic admixtures from China to the surface concentrations of ma...
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Estimation of the influence that natural fires have on air pollution in the region of Moscow megalopolis based on the combined use of chemical transport model and measurement data
Satellite measurements of the fire radiation power, measurements of atmospheric pollution in the network of GPU Mosekomonitoring stations, and the modern CHIMERE chemical transport model (CHIMERE CTM) are used...
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Observed and calculated variability of the particulate matter concentration in Moscow and in Zelenograd
The results of a comparative analysis of temporal and spatial variations in the particulate matter (PM10) concentration are under consideration; the information is obtained based on the measurement data from the ...
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Validation of chemistry transport model of the lower atmosphere in the central European region of Russia using ground-based and satellite measurement data
A modern three-dimensional chemistry transport model is adopted for computation of air pollution with photo-oxidants in the Moscow megalopolis and in the several neighboring regions. Along the vertical, the mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PM-Measurement Campaign HOVERT: Transport Analysis of Aerosol Components by use of the CTM REM–CALGRID
A one year PM10 and its major components measurement campaign in, and around, Berlin has been carried out from September 2001 to September 2002. The most important challenge was to improve the knowledge about ...
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Measurements and modelling of atmospheric pollution over the Paris area: an overview of the ESQUIF Project
The “Étude et Simulation de la QUalité de l’air en Ile de France” (ESQUIF) project is the first integrated project dedicated to the study of the processes leading to air pollution events over the Paris area. T...
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Regional and Global Tropopause Fold Occurrence and Related Ozone Flux Across the Tropopause
This paper gives a synthesis of three algorithms to detect the presenceof tropopause folds from vertical ozone/radio-sounding profiles and frommeteorological analysis. Also an algorithm to identify injection o...
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Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange: Regional and Global Tropopause Folding Occurrence
Two distinct algorithms to detect the presence of tropopause folds from ozone and meteorological radio soundings have been developed within Task Group 3b (KMI/CNRS and University of Cologne) and have been appl...
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Intercomparison campaign of vertical ozone profiles including electrochemical sondes of ECC and Brewer-Mast type and a ground based UV-differential absorption lidar
An intercomparison campaign was conducted at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) in Southern France in September 1989 in order to compare the three instruments used for vertical tropospheric ozone profili...
