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The presence of a city can strongly modify mesoscale circulations induced by very complex topography and pollutant dispersion. A series of mesoscale numerical simulations are carried out for one day of the MEDCAPHOT campaign in Athens (Greece, Ziomas, 1998), in order to evaluate the impact of the city and the sensitivity of model results to the precision in the parameterization of the urban effects.
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Martilli, A., Roulet, YA., Junier, M., Kirchner, F., Rotach, M.W., Clappier, A. (2004). Urban Effects on Air Pollutant Dispersion in Very Complex Terrain: The Athens Case. In: Borrego, C., Incecik, S. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XVI. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8867-6_61
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