Multi-scale Atmospheric Composition Modelling for Bulgaria

Abstract

The present work aims to studying the local to regional atmospheric pollution transport and transformation processes over Bulgaria and to tracking and characterizing the main pathways and processes that lead to atmospheric composition formation in the region. The US EPA Models-3 system is chosen as a modelling tool. As the NCEP Global Analysis Data with 1° resolution is used as meteorological background, the MM5 and CMAQ nesting capabilities are applied for downscaling the simulations to a 9 km resolution over Balkans and 3 km over Bulgaria. The TNO emission inventory is used as emission input. Special pre-processing procedures are created for introducing temporal profiles and speciation of the emissions. The study is based on a large number of numerical simulations carried out to four emission scenarios - with all the emissions and with excluded biogenic emissions, emissions from energetics and road transport. Some results from the numerical simulations concerning the main features of the atmospheric composition in Bulgaria and the contribution of the different emission categories are demonstrated in the paper. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.