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A new atmospheric micro-scale chemistry, transport and stream model, MITRAS, has been developed within the Tropospheric Research Program (TFS). MITRAS is an obstacle resolving model solving simultaneously the governing equations for chemistry, pollutant transport including soot as well as for the flow and temperature field. The chemical reaction module is based on a simplified RACM mechanism. MITRAS has been tested against quality ensured wind tunnel data. The model results on soot and ozone concentrations as well as on the spatial representativeness of measurement sites underline the necessity for high-resolution flow simulations for case studies on close-to-source chemistry and pollutant transport within the urban canopy layer.
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Schlünzen, K.H., Hinneburg, D., Knoth, O. et al. Flow and Transport in the Obstacle Layer: First Results of the Micro-Scale Model MITRAS. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 44, 113–130 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022420130032
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