The article “A microscale hybrid modelling system to assess the air quality over a large portion of a large European city,” developed within the BEEP (Big Data in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology) project, has been published in Atmospheric Environment.
The article presents the implementation of pollutant dispersion simulation over a 12×12 km² domain in the urban area of Rome for the entire year of 2015, with a spatial resolution of 4 meters. The methodology employs an integrated approach using the FARM chemical transport model and the PMSS Lagrangian particle model, showing good agreement with measurements for NO2 and PM10 pollutants. Of particular interest is the high computational efficiency achieved by the simulation, made possible by the integration of a new concentration calculation method within the PMSS model.
The results were then used to support epidemiological studies within the BEEP project.
The article can be downloaded from this link.