Air quality modeling in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil: A review

M Gavidia-Calderón, D Schuch, A Vara-Vela… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have used air quality models to estimate pollutant concentrations in the
Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (MASP) by using different inputs and assumptions. Our …

Modeling emissions for three-dimensional atmospheric chemistry transport models

V Matthias, JA Arndt, A Aulinger, J Bieser… - Journal of the Air & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Poor air quality is still a threat for human health in many parts of the world. In order to assess
measures for emission reductions and improved air quality, three-dimensional atmospheric …

Fire influence on regional to global Environments and air quality (FIREX‐AQ)

C Warneke, JP Schwarz, J Dibb… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air
Quality (FIREX‐AQ) experiment was a multi‐agency, inter‐disciplinary research effort to:(a) …

Inclusion of biomass burning in WRF-Chem: impact of wildfires on weather forecasts

G Grell, SR Freitas, M Stuefer… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
A plume rise algorithm for wildfires was included in WRF-Chem, and applied to look at the
impact of intense wildfires during the 2004 Alaska wildfire season on weather simulations …

Evaluation and intercomparison of wildfire smoke forecasts from multiple modeling systems for the 2019 Williams Flats fire

X Ye, P Arab, R Ahmadov, E James… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfire smoke is one of the most significant concerns of human and environmental health,
associated with its substantial impacts on air quality, weather, and climate. However …

The AFWA dust emission scheme for the GOCART aerosol model in WRF-Chem v3. 8.1

SL LeGrand, C Polashenski, TW Letcher… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Airborne particles of mineral dust play a key role in Earth's climate system and affect human
activities around the globe. The numerical weather modeling community has undertaken …

Rapid recent deforestation incursion in a vulnerable indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon and fire-driven emissions of fine particulate aerosol pollutants

G de Oliveira, JM Chen, GAV Mataveli, MED Chaves… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is related to the use of fire to remove natural
vegetation and install crop cultures or pastures. In this study, we evaluated the relation …

Modeling the origin of anthropogenic black carbon and its climatic effect over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions

J Yang, S Kang, Z Ji, D Chen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) in snow/ice induces enhanced snow and glacier melting. As over 60% of
atmospheric BC is emitted from anthropogenic sources, which directly impacts the …

The Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS 5.2): an integrated environmental model tuned for tropical areas

SR Freitas, J Panetta, KM Longo… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
We present a new version of the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric
Modeling System (BRAMS), in which different previous versions for weather, chemistry, and …

Improving PM2. 5 forecast over China by the joint adjustment of initial conditions and source emissions with an ensemble Kalman filter

Z Peng, Z Liu, D Chen, J Ban - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
In an attempt to improve the forecasting of atmospheric aerosols, the ensemble square root
filter algorithm was extended to simultaneously optimize the chemical initial conditions (ICs) …