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Results of joint calculations with meteorological WRF ARW model and chemistry transport CHIMERE model are considered as a basis of the modern system of the air quality assessment and forecasting. The system was designed in the Russian Hydrometeorological Center and Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Detailed prognostic information about the atmosphere state provided by the WRF ARW was used in the CHIMERE model for describing the air mass transport processes, chemical transformation, and pollution deposition. Results of retrieval and forecast of surface ozone concentration as one of main air quality indicators are under consideration. Calculations of ozone concentrations for different configurations of a prognostic system differ in resolution of model grid and in the way the boundary conditions are prescribed.
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Original Russian Text © R.B. Zaripov, I.B. Konovalov, I.N. Kuznetsova, I.B. Belikov, A.M. Zvyagintsev, 2011, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2011, No. 4, pp. 48–60.
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Zaripov, R.B., Konovalov, I.B., Kuznetsova, I.N. et al. WRF ARW and CHIMERE models for numerical forecasting of surface ozone concentration. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 36, 249–257 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373911040054
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