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TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling Street-Scale Resolution Air Quality for the West Midlands (UK) Using the ADMS-Urban RML System
AU - Zhong, Jian
AU - Hood, Christina
AU - Johnson, Kate
AU - Stocker, Jenny
AU - Handley, Jonathan
AU - Wolstencroft, Mark
AU - Mazzeo, Andrea
AU - Cai, Xiaoming
AU - Bloss, William James
PY - 2023/1/2
Y1 - 2023/1/2
N2 - Air pollution is a major environmental concern in urban areas, causing substantial adverse effects on human health. This study simulated street-scale resolution air quality for the West Midlands region in the UK using a regional-to-local coupled system, which combined the regional CMAQ model with the local ADMS-Urban model, without double-counting emissions. CMAQ was used to represent dispersion on large temporal and spatial scales, while ADMS-Urban represents the local short-term dispersion from explicit point and road sources. Both models were evaluated against observations with reasonable performance, i.e. CMAQ captured measured air pollutant concentrations at background sites, while coupled ADMS-Urban RML (Regional Model Link) also captured air pollution concentrations at roadside sites, where local effects were important. Street scale air quality maps were produced from the ADMS-Urban RML, which can be linked to health-related exposure studies. The coupled air quality modelling system for WM serves as an effective tool to evaluate potential regional and local air pollution mitigation policies.
AB - Air pollution is a major environmental concern in urban areas, causing substantial adverse effects on human health. This study simulated street-scale resolution air quality for the West Midlands region in the UK using a regional-to-local coupled system, which combined the regional CMAQ model with the local ADMS-Urban model, without double-counting emissions. CMAQ was used to represent dispersion on large temporal and spatial scales, while ADMS-Urban represents the local short-term dispersion from explicit point and road sources. Both models were evaluated against observations with reasonable performance, i.e. CMAQ captured measured air pollutant concentrations at background sites, while coupled ADMS-Urban RML (Regional Model Link) also captured air pollution concentrations at roadside sites, where local effects were important. Street scale air quality maps were produced from the ADMS-Urban RML, which can be linked to health-related exposure studies. The coupled air quality modelling system for WM serves as an effective tool to evaluate potential regional and local air pollution mitigation policies.
KW - Air quality
KW - Regional-to-local coupled system
KW - Road sources
KW - Street-scale
KW - West Midlands
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-12786-1_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-12786-1_10
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85147985044
SN - 9783031127854
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Complexity
SP - 77
EP - 82
BT - Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVIII
A2 - Mensink, Clemens
A2 - Jorba, Oriol
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
CY - Cham
T2 - 38th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, ITM 2021
Y2 - 18 October 2021 through 22 October 2021
ER -