AtmosferaPub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.20937/atm.53118
Özgür Zeydan, A. Karademir
{"title":"Comparison of two air quality models in complex terrain near sea shore","authors":"Özgür Zeydan, A. Karademir","doi":"10.20937/atm.53118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20937/atm.53118","url":null,"abstract":"Air pollution is the most important environmental problem in Zonguldak, Turkey due\u0000 to excessive coal combustion and thermal power plant emissions. The city center is\u0000 located on a complex terrain near the Black Sea shore. There exist some previous studies\u0000 about PM10 pollution in the study area, but none of them is related to the spatial\u0000 distribution of the pollutant. This air quality modeling study aims to fill this gap in\u0000 the literature. Firstly, PM10 emission inventory has been prepared for point, line, and\u0000 area sources for the year 2011. For that period, bituminous coal was the principal fuel\u0000 for domestic heating in houses and generating electricity in thermal power plants,\u0000 therefore particulate matter (PM10) was the leading air pollutant. Emission inventory\u0000 calculations revealed that 2710.2 tons of PM10 have been emitted to the atmosphere from\u0000 all sources in the study area. Then, the air quality modeling has been performed for\u0000 PM10 by using two air quality models: AERMOD and CALPUFF. According to the modeling\u0000 results, the PM10 pollution levels may pose a health threat to the inhabitants of\u0000 Zonguldak. The maximum PM10 concentrations predicted by the CALPUFF model were higher\u0000 than that of the AERMOD model. The model predicted values plus background concentration\u0000 were validated against the PM10 measurements by using fractional bias, index of\u0000 agreement, geometric mean bias, and geometric mean-variance. According to the model\u0000 performance analysis, CALPUFF showed slightly better performance as compared to\u0000 AERMOD.","PeriodicalId":55576,"journal":{"name":"Atmosfera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48033120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AtmosferaPub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.20937/atm.53039
N. G. Prezerakos
{"title":"The Planetary Boundary Layer physical processes, the secondary thermal baroclinic\u0000 circulation and inertial oscillation contribution to diurnal variation of the Etesian\u0000 winds over the Aegean Sea","authors":"N. G. Prezerakos","doi":"10.20937/atm.53039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20937/atm.53039","url":null,"abstract":"The Etesian winds constitute an important climatological phenomenon, which does\u0000 not only moderate the heat during the summer in the Aegean Sea, but provide a source of\u0000 clean renewable energy as well. Even though several papers have attempted to explain\u0000 their dynamical and the physical characteristics, the respective processes that drive\u0000 the diurnal variation of the wind speed are not fully understood. The objective of this\u0000 paper is to identify the processes responsible for diurnal variation with observed\u0000 maximum wind speed around noon and minimum around midnight. Analytical solutions of a\u0000 primitive equation set in Eulerian form, after introducing suitable conditions and\u0000 approximations, reveal an inertial oscillation over the Aegean Sea. Data based on direct\u0000 observations, ECMWF IFS high resolution analyses and high-resolution simulations with\u0000 the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model are utilized to find out the type and\u0000 the structure of the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) over the Aegean Sea. This PBL\u0000 appears to be of a marine character and turbulent mostly during the day but less during\u0000 the night. The direct impact of the local and regional thermally-driven circulations is\u0000 found to be the main cause of the diurnal variation of the observed wind and partly the\u0000 inertial oscillation. Results from numerical simulations certify these findings.\u0000 Furthermore, the momentum and Newtonian heating exchanges by the physical processes\u0000 inside the PBL, where the gradient wind together with smaller scales of atmospheric\u0000 motions exist, are also necessary for explaining the variability of the Etesian\u0000 winds.","PeriodicalId":55576,"journal":{"name":"Atmosfera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67655567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}