Modelling The Future - An Application Of The Variable Grid Urban Airshed Model (UAM-V) To The Fraser Valley Of British Columbia, Canada
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
21
Pages
10
Published
1997
Size
1,058 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/AIR970431
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
Joanne L. Pettier, Jay Hane, Hans P. Deuel & Hedy Tunggal
Abstract
|4 Modelling the future - an application of the variable grid Urban Airshed Model (UAM-V) to the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada Joanne L. Pettier*, Jay Hane/, Hans P. Deuel* & Hedy Tunggal * Aquatics and Atmospheric Sciences Division, Environment Canada, 7* Floor, 1200 West 73"* Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6P 6H9 Email: joanne.pottier@ec.gc.ca *'*'* Systems Applications International, 101 Lucas Valley Road, San Rafael, California, USA 94903 Email: jlh@saintl.com, hpd@saintl.com, hht@saintl.com Abstract The variable grid Urban Airshed Model (UAM-V) photochemical modelling system was used to simulate a base case and future scenarios to determine ozone concentrations in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Precursor pollutants are strongly linked to the mobile sector in the region, which is expanding rapidly due to population increase. Simulations were performed to ascertain the effects of
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