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Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) present potential health risk at large urban centres worldwide. Modelling their ground-level concentrations is a fundamental part of urban air quality assessment studies. Simple atmospheric dispersion models are particularly useful in places lacking detailed input data to run complex models and for applications requiring a large number of simulations, also allowing high spatial and temporal resolution even for long-term calculations. The DAUMOD-GRS urban atmospheric dispersion model has been developed aiming to have these features. This work presents its performance evaluation considering hourly concentrations of NO2 and O3 measured at twenty sites across the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (MABA), Argentina. Results show an acceptable model performance, with a small tendency to underestimate NO2 and to overestimate O3. By grouping the monitoring sites in regions having different emission conditions, it is found that the model reproduces well the observed urban-suburban concentration gradients. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Simple atmospheric dispersion model to estimate hourly ground-level nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations at urban scale
Autor:Pineda Rojas, A.L.
Filiación:Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA), DCAO/FCEN, UMI-IFAECI/CNRS, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab.II piso 2, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Buenos Aires; DAUMOD-GRS model; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; Urban air quality modelling; Atmospheric chemistry; Atmospheric movements; Computer simulation; Nitrogen oxides; Ozone; Atmospheric dispersion modeling; Atmospheric dispersion models; Buenos Aires; Ground level concentrations; Nitrogen dioxides; Spatial and temporal resolutions; Urban air quality; Urban air quality assessment; Urban growth; air quality; atmospheric modeling; concentration (composition); dispersion; emission inventory; metropolitan area; nitrogen dioxide; ozone; performance assessment; pollution monitoring; urban atmosphere; Argentina; Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Año:2014
Volumen:59
Página de inicio:127
Página de fin:134
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.016
Título revista:Environmental Modelling and Software
Título revista abreviado:Environ. Model. Softw.
ISSN:13648152
CODEN:EMSOF
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_13648152_v59_n_p127_PinedaRojas

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(2014) . Simple atmospheric dispersion model to estimate hourly ground-level nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations at urban scale. Environmental Modelling and Software, 59, 127-134.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.016
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Pineda Rojas, A.L. "Simple atmospheric dispersion model to estimate hourly ground-level nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations at urban scale" . Environmental Modelling and Software 59 (2014) : 127-134.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.016
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Pineda Rojas, A.L. "Simple atmospheric dispersion model to estimate hourly ground-level nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations at urban scale" . Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 59, 2014, pp. 127-134.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.016
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Pineda Rojas, A.L. Simple atmospheric dispersion model to estimate hourly ground-level nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations at urban scale. Environ. Model. Softw. 2014;59:127-134.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.016