Integrated multi-scale models of interacting urban meteorology/climate and air quality: outcomes from Megapoli

Authors: A.A. Baklanov, MEGAPOLI team

Year: 2013

Issue: 12

Pages: 31-38

Abstract

Integrated multi-scale modelling concept of urban environment, air pollution, climate change and human health interactions for megacities and overview of integrated modelling frameworks for global to street scale realized in European FP7 project MEGAPOLI and several following research projects, are described in this paper.

Tags: atmospheric pollution; climate change; feedbacks; interactions; local-; urban-; regional and global scales; megacities; meteorological and chemical transport models; urban climate

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