Evaluation of a Simple Spatially Explicit Model of Atmospheric Transport of Pollutants in Europe
In recent years, initiatives of the European chemical industry lead to the development of a
9 simplified, spatially explicit, continental scale atmospheric transport model called
10 ADEPT. After a description of the model and its assumptions, we compare results for
11 NOx, SOx, and benzene with existing atmospheric concentration observations, and with
12 the box model which is at the basis of the well known European Union System for the
13 Evaluation of Substances (EUSES); moreover, we provide an interpretation of the
14 ADEPT model in terms of extremely simple analytical models, which can be used to
15 approximate atmospheric transport at the continental scale from a generic distribution of
16 emission sources. Based on these results, we recommend the use of the ADEPT model in
17 place of traditional box models for screening level calculations, when the focus is on the
18 effects of emissions far from the source. The ADEPT model may be mimicked by a
19 simplified Gaussian model for a first assessment at the continental scale, when dealing
20 with emissions following a spatial distribution different from the one of population
21 density assumed in ADEPT. The widely used box models may provide results similar to
22 the ones of ADEPT, when the latter are averaged over sufficiently large regions.
PISTOCCHI Alberto;
GALMARINI Stefano;
2010-12-21
SPRINGER
JRC50070
1420-2026,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC50070,
10.1007/s10666-008-9187-x,
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