The megapoli paris campaign for urban aerosol characterisation - a comprehensive data set for air quality model evaluation

Matthias Beekmann (1) , Laura Chiappini (2) , Olivier Favez (2) , Gilles Aymoz (2) , Bertrand Bessagnet (2) , Laurence Rouil (2) , Stéphanie Rossignol (2)

1 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
2 INERIS - Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques

Within the FP7 MEGAPOLI project, two intensive field campaigns have been conducted in the Greater Paris region during July 2009 and January/February 2010. The major aim was to quantify sources of primary and secondary aerosol, and the interaction with gaseous precursors, in and around a large agglomeration in temperate latitudes. From this campaign, a comprehensive data set will be built which will be available for urban and regional scale air quality model evaluation. The paper will present campaign objectives and set-up, first results, and specific benchmarks, which should be most useful for model evaluation.

Keywords: ORGANIC AEROSOL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES; BENCHMARK FOR MODEL EVALUATION.; BENCHMARK FOR MODEL EVALUATION

Domains: Environmental Sciences

Matthias Beekmann, Laura Chiappini, Olivier Favez, Gilles Aymoz, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. The megapoli paris campaign for urban aerosol characterisation - a comprehensive data set for air quality model evaluation. 13. International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes (HARMO 13), Jun 2010, Paris, France. pp.519-523. ⟨ineris-00973562⟩