Assessment of natural and anthropogenic aerosol air pollution in the Middle East using MERRA-2, CAMS data assimilation products, and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Ukhov, Alexander, Mostamandi, Suleiman, Silva, Arlindo, Flemming, Johannes, Alshehri, Yasser, Shevchenko, Illia, Stenchikov, Georgiy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Merra; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9281-2020; https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/9281/2020/

Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications v.2 (MERRA-2), Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service Operational Analysis (CAMS-OA), and a high-resolution regional Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) were used to evaluate natural and anthropoge...