Development and validation of a novel-based combination operational air quality forecasting system in Greece

Zoras, Stamatis; Evagelopoulos, V.; Pytharoulis, I.; Κάλλος, Γ.

doi:10.1007/s00703-010-0058-z

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“…In this respect, the use of SKIRON model in a high resolution mode was an advantage for the presented study since SKIRON is a well-established model used and evaluated successfully in the past in various research, technical and operational works. Trying to give a brief overview, we could refer the reader to studies covering the area of Mediterranean Sea with emphasis to wave applications [24,56,57,72,74], over the Atlantic Ocean for oil spill modeling [33], for the Adriatic Sea [17], the Aegean Sea [44] and, additionally, for air-quality applications [4,75], renewable energy [14,32,48,67], photochemical processes [70], and desert dust studies [6,41,53,66].…”

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Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

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a b s t r a c tThe main characteristics of wave energy potential over Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin, an area of increased interest for energy resources exploration/exploitation, is presented in this work. In particular, an integrated hindcasting platform consisting of state-of-the-art wind-wave numerical models at a very high resolution mode is utilized to produce a 10-year database for the wave energy potential in the Levantine Basin and the environmental parameters that affect it. The numerical results are analyzed by means of a variety of statistical measures focusing, apart from the conventional statistical information, on the potential impact of extreme values and the probability distribution functions that optimally describe the spatial and temporal distribution of the wave power potential over the Eastern Mediterranean sea area. The regions with increased values of wave energy potential are mainly the western and southern coastlines of Cyprus island, the sea area of Lebanon and Israel, as well as the coastline of Egypt especially around Alexandria. Over these areas, relatively low but also stable, and hence exploitable, wave energy potential is revealed. However, non-trivial impact of infrequent values is also recorded.

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Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

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“… Exposure to particulate matter with diameter less than 10 µm (PM10) is one of the greatest environmental risk to human health and responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths per year in the EU [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] . The data presented herein can help the scientific community and policy/decision makers to set appropriate limits for inhalable particles.…”

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Dataset of inhalable particulate matter concentrations in the region of West Macedonia, Greece for an 11-year period

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“…While perhaps not all of the upgrades we listed are included in the Athens code, going by the name Skiron, or Skiron/Eta, or Skiron/Dust, the Athens code is coupled to advanced aerosols/dust package, and has been used for numerous air quality studies as well as operational forecasts addressing several application areas (e.g., Kallos et al 2007;Astitha et al 2010;Spyrou et al 2010;Zoras et al 2010; among others). Specifically, the place of their highest elevation.…”

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Upgrades implemented over a number of years in an open source version of the Eta model, posted at the CPTEC web site http://etamodel.cptec.inpe.br/, are summarized and examples of benefits are shown. The version originates from the NCEP's Workstation Eta code posted on the NCEP web site http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/ mmb/wrkstn_eta, which differs from the NCEP's latest operational Eta by having the WRF-NMM nonhydrostatic option included. Most of the upgrades made resulted from attention paid to less than satisfactory performance noted in several Eta results, and identification of the reasons for the problem. Others came from simple expectation that including a feature that is physically justified but is missing in the code should help. The most notable of the upgrades are the introduction of the so-called sloping steps, or discretized shaved cells topography; piecewise-linear finitevolume vertical advection of dynamic variables; vapor and hydrometeor loading in the hydrostatic equation, and changes aimed at refining the convection schemes available in the Eta. Several other modifications have to do with the calculation of exchange coefficients, conservation in the vertical diffusion, and diagnostic calculation of 10-m winds. Several examples showing improved performance resulting from the dynamics changes are given. One includes a case of unrealistically low temperatures in several mountain basins generated by a centered vertical advection difference scheme's unphysical advection from below ground, removed by its replacement with a finitevolume scheme. Another is that of increased katabatic winds in the Terra Nova Bay Antarctica region. Successful forecast of the severe downslope zonda wind case in the lee of the highest peaks of the Andes is also shown, and some of the recent successful verification results of the use of the upgraded model are pointed out. The code is used at numerous places, and along with setup information it is available for outside users at the CPTEC Eta web site given above.

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Development and validation of a novel-based combination operational air quality forecasting system in Greece

Cited by 13 publications

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Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

Dataset of inhalable particulate matter concentrations in the region of West Macedonia, Greece for an 11-year period

An upgraded version of the Eta model

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