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The three-dimensional long-range transport model EURAD has been applied to two episodes in 1986 to study the transport and transformation of air pollutants over Europe under different meteorological conditions. The spring episode is characterized by varying meteorological conditions over Europe and transport of pollutants is complex. The summer episode is suitable to study the enhanced formation of photooxidants as an almost stagnant high pressure system over central Europe favoured the accumulation of pollutants. Available observations from several monitoring networks in Europe are used to evaluate the near surface concentration predictions of the model. This is possible for the sulfur species, O3 and NO2 for the central part of the modelling domain. It is shown that O3 and NO2 trends in the western part of the model domain are estimated reasonably well. The strong bias for underpredicting NO2 in the eastern part of the domain reflects the quality of emission data for the two regions of the modelling area. Typically for regional scale Eulerian transport models when applied on larger grid sizes, EURAD overpredicts the observed minima and underpredicts the high observations. This is particularly true for O3 but also detectable in the sulfate comparisons. Several sensitivity simulations for both episodes were performed to test numerical algorithms, parameterizations or emission data. Results from these simulations clearly show the important role of cloud related processes during the spring time for the sulfur species. Further testing and assessment of cloud parameterizations and emission data for transport models is anticipated.
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Hass, H., Jakobs, H.J. & Memmesheimer, M. Analysis of a regional model (EURAD) near surface gas concentration predictions using observations from networks. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 57, 173–200 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01044160
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