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Air-quality modelling in the Lake Baikal region

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In this paper, we assess the status of the air quality in the Lake Baikal region which is strongly influenced by the presence of anthropogenic pollution sources. We combined the local data, with global databases, remote sensing imagery and modelling tools. This approach allows to inventorise the air-polluting sources and to quantify the air-quality concentration levels in the Lake Baikal region to a reasonable level, despite the fact that local data are scarcely available. In the simulations, we focus on the month of July 2003, as for this period, validation data are available for a number of ground-based measurement stations within the Lake Baikal region.

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  1. Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium

    Karen Van de Vel, Clemens Mensink, Koen De Ridder, Felix Deutsch, Joachim Maes & Jo Vliegen

  2. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, Russia

    Artash Aloyan & Vardan Arutyunyan

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Yermakov

  4. Russian Academy of Sciences – Siberian Branch, Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia

    Tamara Khodzher

  5. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands

    Bas Mijling

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Van de Vel, K., Mensink, C., De Ridder, K. et al. Air-quality modelling in the Lake Baikal region. Environ Monit Assess 165, 665–674 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-009-0977-7

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