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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 176, Issue -, Pages 123-133Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.01.006
Keywords
Urban forestry; Meteorology; Air quality modeling; Dry deposition; Environmental quality
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- USDA Forest Service National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC)
- Fulbright Foreign Student Program
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1249672] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A distributed adaptation of i-Tree Eco was used to simulate dry deposition in an urban area. This investigation focused on the effects of varying temperature, LAI, and NO2 concentration inputs on estimated NO2 dry deposition to trees in Baltimore, MD. A coupled modeling system is described, wherein WRF provided temperature and LAI fields, and CMAQ provided NO2 concentrations. A base case simulation was conducted using built-in distributed i-Tree Eco tools, and simulations using different inputs were compared against this base case. Differences in land cover classification and tree cover between the distributed i-Tree Eco and WRF resulted in changes in estimated LAI, which in turn resulted in variations in simulated NO2 dry deposition. Estimated NO2 removal decreased when CMAQ-derived concentration was applied to the distributed i-Tree Eco simulation. Discrepancies in temperature inputs did little to affect estimates of NO2 removal by dry deposition to trees in Baltimore. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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