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This paper presents the first step in the development of a forecasting system for air pollution concentrations for the south-west region of Poland. We simulated a winter (January) and a summer (July) period of 2014 with WRF-Chem. The focus has been on studying different chemical options during the two simulation periods, therefore keeping emissions constant, except for natural sources. The authors have found that different model setups increase model performance for gases and particulate matter and that there is no clear dependence between forecast lead time and model performance.
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The study was supported by the Polish National Science Centre project no. UMO-2013/09/B/ST10/00594 and the LIFE+, project LIFE12 ENV/PL/000056. The authors acknowledge the Voivodeship Inspectorate of Environmental Protection in Wrocław for providing observations of air pollution concentrations.
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Werner, M., Kryza, M., Skjøth, C.A., Ojrzyńska, H., Wałaszek, K., Dore, A.J. (2016). Application of the WRF-Chem Model for Air Pollution Forecasting in Poland. In: Steyn, D., Chaumerliac, N. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_58
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