Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City

Veronica Vidal; Ana Cortés; Alba Badia; Gara Villalba

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_5

Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City

Veronica Vidal^*, Ana Cortés, Alba Badia, Gara Villalba

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Improving air quality in highly polluted cities is a challenge for today’s society. Most of the proposed strategies include green policies that aim to introduce green infrastructures helping to improve air quality. To design new cities with more green infrastructures, the WRF-Chem model is used to analyze the evolution of the most common pollutants and their dispersion due to the meteorology of the moment. Most of the studies, however, are off an urban scale (hundreds of meters of resolution), and those cases that simulate the meteorology at this resolution need to consider the city’s morphology. Using the city of Barcelona as a case study, this paper confirms that the modeling methodology used up to now must be reviewed to design green cities. Certain limitations of the WRF-Chem model have been analyzed, including the BEP-BEM as an urban canopy layer, and the reasons for such limitations are discussed.

Idioma original	Inglés
Título de la publicación alojada	Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings
Editores	Jiří Mikyška, Clélia de Mulatier, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Peter M.A. Sloot, Maciej Paszynski, Jack J. Dongarra
Editorial	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Páginas	61-73
Número de páginas	13
ISBN (versión impresa)	9783031359941
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_5
Estado	Publicada - 2023

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Nombre	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volumen	14073 LNCS
ISSN (versión impresa)	0302-9743
ISSN (versión digital)	1611-3349

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Air Quality
BEP-BEM
Green Infrastructures
Urban scale
WRF-Chem

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Vidal, V., Cortés, A., Badia, A., & Villalba, G. (2023). Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City. En J. Mikyška, C. de Mulatier, V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya, P. M. A. Sloot, M. Paszynski, & J. J. Dongarra (Eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings (pp. 61-73). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14073 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_5

Vidal, Veronica ; Cortés, Ana ; Badia, Alba et al. / Downscaling WRF-Chem : Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City. Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. editor / Jiří Mikyška ; Clélia de Mulatier ; Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya ; Peter M.A. Sloot ; Maciej Paszynski ; Jack J. Dongarra. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 61-73 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Vidal, V, Cortés, A, Badia, A & Villalba, G 2023, Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City. En J Mikyška, C de Mulatier, VV Krzhizhanovskaya, PMA Sloot, M Paszynski & JJ Dongarra (eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14073 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_5

Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City. / Vidal, Veronica; Cortés, Ana; Badia, Alba et al.
Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Jiří Mikyška; Clélia de Mulatier; Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya; Peter M.A. Sloot; Maciej Paszynski; Jack J. Dongarra. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 61-73 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14073 LNCS).

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Vidal V, Cortés A, Badia A, Villalba G. Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City. En Mikyška J, de Mulatier C, Krzhizhanovskaya VV, Sloot PMA, Paszynski M, Dongarra JJ, editores, Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 61-73. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_5