edu.ucar.opensky::articles:26371 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T19:31:41.509498 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7xk8kjm https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968 https Related Dataset #1 ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001 https://doi.org/10.5065/NMP7-EP60 https Related Dataset #2 CESM2.1/CAM-chem Instantaneous Output for Boundary Conditions Coupled mesoscale-microscale modeling of air quality in a polluted city using WRF-LES-Chem 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7xk8kjm https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5905-2023 Wang, Y. author Ma, Y. author Muñoz-Esparza, Domingo author Dai, J. author Li, C. W. Y. author Lichtig, P. author Tsang, R. C. author Liu, C. author Wang, T. author Brasseur, Guy author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher To perform realistic high-resolution air quality modeling in a polluted urban area, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used with an embedded large-eddy simulation (LES) module and online chemistry. As an illustration, a numerical experiment is conducted in the megacity of Hong Kong, which is characterized by multi-type inhomogeneous pollution sources and complex topography. The results from the multi-resolution simulations at mesoscale and LES scales are evaluated by comparing them with ozone sounding profiles and surface observations. The comparisons show that both mesoscale and LES simulations reproduce the mean concentrations of the chemical species and their diurnal variations at the background stations well. However, the mesoscale simulations largely underestimate the NOx concentrations and overestimate O-3 at the roadside stations due to the coarse representation of the traffic emissions. The LES simulations improve the agreement with the measurements near the road traffic, and the LES with the highest spatial resolution (33.3 m) provides the best results. The large-eddy simulations show more detailed structures in the spatial distributions of chemical species than the mesoscale simulations, highlighting the capability of LES to resolve high-resolution photochemical transformations in urban areas. Compared to the mesoscale model results, the LES simulations show similar evolutions in the profiles of the chemical species as a function of the boundary layer development over a diurnal cycle. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation