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AQA, the Air Quality Model for Austria, uses ALADIN-Austria meteoro10 logical forecasts in combination with the chemical transport model CAMx to conduct forecasts of gaseous and particulate air pollutants over Austria. For a short episode in January 2007 with enhanced PM10 concentrations caused by a pronounced temperature inversion in Kittsee in NE Austria, model predictions of vertical profiles of wind and temperature are compared to data of a Sodar-RASS operating at this site from 2006 to 2007; predictions of PM10 are compared to data of the Kittsee air quality station. The results indicate that the model is able to reproduce this complex situation only after an adjustment to the low-level wind field based on a detailed analysis of the situation.
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Hirtl, M., Piringer, M., Krüger, B.C. (2012). A case study of chemical weather forecasting in the area of Vienna, Austria. In: Rauch, S., Morrison, G. (eds) Urban Environment. Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2540-9_9
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