Al. Malcolm et Aj. Manning, Testing the skill of a Lagrangian dispersion model at estimating primary and secondary particulates, ATMOS ENVIR, 35(9), 2001, pp. 1677-1685
The Met. Office's atmospheric dispersion model, NAME, has been configured t
o model both primary and secondary particulates, over a regional scale, for
1999. The study compares the sum of three modelled components (UK primary
PM10, European (excluding UK sources) primary PM10 and secondary sulphate a
erosol) with the average of three urban background measurement sites at Lon
don. A 24-h running average is applied to both data sets. The timeseries of
both data sets for the year are presented with a statistical analysis. The
results show the importance of including both secondary and European prima
ry PM10 in modelling studies, and also indicates the modelling limitations
imposed by lack of primary emission information. Crown Copyright (C) 2001 P
ublished by Elsevier Science Ltd. Al rights reserved.