Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4475-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4475-2016
Development and technical paper
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16 Dec 2016
Development and technical paper |  | 16 Dec 2016

Improving the spatial resolution of air-quality modelling at a European scale – development and evaluation of the Air Quality Re-gridder Model (AQR v1.1)

Mark R. Theobald, David Simpson, and Massimo Vieno

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Impacts of air pollution at a continental scale, estimated using air quality models, can potentially be greatly under- or overestimated due to the low spatial resolution used (grid cells of 10–50 km). We present a method to estimate the spatial variations in air quality within a model grid cell by combining high-resolution emission data with estimates of short range dispersion. This simple but robust technique has the potential to improve estimates of air quality impacts at a continental scale.