Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal

Climate change alone may deeply impact air quality levels in the atmosphere because the changes in the meteorological conditions will induce changes on the transport, dispersion and transformation of air pollutants. The aim of this work was to evaluate the impact of climate change on the air quality...

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Autor principal:	Solman, Silvina Alicia
Publicado:	2010
Materias:	Air quality modelling Meteorological fields Ozone Particulate matter Regional climate change ozone air pollutant air quality article climate change Europe meteorology particulate matter Portugal priority journal
Acceso en línea:	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14629011_v13_n6_p445_Carvalho http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_14629011_v13_n6_p445_Carvalho
Aporte de:	Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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spelling	paper:paper_14629011_v13_n6_p445_Carvalho2023-06-08T16:16:18Z Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal Solman, Silvina Alicia Air quality modelling Meteorological fields Ozone Particulate matter Regional climate change ozone air pollutant air quality article climate change Europe meteorology particulate matter Portugal priority journal Climate change alone may deeply impact air quality levels in the atmosphere because the changes in the meteorological conditions will induce changes on the transport, dispersion and transformation of air pollutants. The aim of this work was to evaluate the impact of climate change on the air quality over Europe and Portugal, using a reference year (year 1990) and a IPCC SRES A2 year (year 2100). The Hadley Centre global atmospheric circulation model (HadAM3P) was used to provide results for these two climatic scenarios, which were then used as synoptic forcing for the MM5-CHIMERE air quality modelling system. In order to assess the contribution of future climate change on O3 and PM concentrations, no changes in regional emissions were assumed and only climate change forcing was considered. The modelling results suggest that the O3 monthly mean levels in the atmosphere may increase almost 50μgm-3 across Europe in July under the IPCC SRES A2 scenario. In Portugal, this increase may reach 20μgm-3. The changes of PM10 monthly average values over Europe will depend on the region. The increase in PM10 concentrations during specific months could be explained by the average reduction of the boundary layer height and wind speed. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. Fil:Solman, S. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2010 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14629011_v13_n6_p445_Carvalho http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_14629011_v13_n6_p445_Carvalho
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topic	Air quality modelling Meteorological fields Ozone Particulate matter Regional climate change ozone air pollutant air quality article climate change Europe meteorology particulate matter Portugal priority journal
spellingShingle	Air quality modelling Meteorological fields Ozone Particulate matter Regional climate change ozone air pollutant air quality article climate change Europe meteorology particulate matter Portugal priority journal Solman, Silvina Alicia Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
topic_facet	Air quality modelling Meteorological fields Ozone Particulate matter Regional climate change ozone air pollutant air quality article climate change Europe meteorology particulate matter Portugal priority journal
description	Climate change alone may deeply impact air quality levels in the atmosphere because the changes in the meteorological conditions will induce changes on the transport, dispersion and transformation of air pollutants. The aim of this work was to evaluate the impact of climate change on the air quality over Europe and Portugal, using a reference year (year 1990) and a IPCC SRES A2 year (year 2100). The Hadley Centre global atmospheric circulation model (HadAM3P) was used to provide results for these two climatic scenarios, which were then used as synoptic forcing for the MM5-CHIMERE air quality modelling system. In order to assess the contribution of future climate change on O3 and PM concentrations, no changes in regional emissions were assumed and only climate change forcing was considered. The modelling results suggest that the O3 monthly mean levels in the atmosphere may increase almost 50μgm-3 across Europe in July under the IPCC SRES A2 scenario. In Portugal, this increase may reach 20μgm-3. The changes of PM10 monthly average values over Europe will depend on the region. The increase in PM10 concentrations during specific months could be explained by the average reduction of the boundary layer height and wind speed. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
author	Solman, Silvina Alicia
author_facet	Solman, Silvina Alicia
author_sort	Solman, Silvina Alicia
title	Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
title_short	Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
title_full	Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
title_fullStr	Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
title_full_unstemmed	Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal
title_sort	climate-driven changes in air quality over europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to portugal
publishDate	2010
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Climate-driven changes in air quality over Europe by the end of the 21st century, with special reference to Portugal

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