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Over 98 % of ammonia (NH3) emission in Poland comes from agricultural activity. Compared to oxidised sulphur and nitrogen, which show significant downward trends after the year 1990, national total NH3 emission is fairly stable at around 320 Gg. In this work, the Fine Resolution Atmospheric Multi-pollutant Exchange (FRAME) model is used to assess the long-term information on annual NH3 and NH4 + air concentrations.
The main findings of our work show that the FRAME model is capable of reproducing air concentrations of NH3 and NH4 + well for all selected years. There is no tendency for under or overestimation of the observed air concentrations. The FRAME model results are also in general agreement with the EMEP-Unified model results, though the differences in spatial resolutions of both models are important (FRAME 5 km grid and EMEP-Unified 50 km grid). There no significant trend in NH3 annual air concentration in Poland if country average values are compared.
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This work was funded by the Polish National Science Centre grant no UMO-2012/05/B/ST10/00446.
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Kryza, M., Dore, A.J., Werner, M., Wałaszek, K. (2014). Application and Evaluation of the High-Resolution Regional Scale FRAME Model for Calculation of Ammonia and Ammonium Air Concentrations for Poland for the Years 2002–2008. In: Steyn, D., Mathur, R. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04379-1_51
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