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During summers 2013 and 2014, two three weeks intensive campaign took place over the western Mediterranean basin in order to investigate photo-oxidant and aerosol sources over the region. Within the frame of the MISTRALS/ChArMEx (Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment) program and the ANR/SAFMED (Secondary Aerosol Formation in the MEDiterranean) project, this campaign included an extensive experimental set-up based on ground-based, balloon-borne, aircraft and satellite measurements. In this paper, a modeling perspective of the campaign is given, based on simulations with the regional chemistry-transport model, CHIMERE, in a configuration shaped for the Mediterranean region. Major sources of photo-oxidants, and aerosols are addressed: long range transport from continental Europe, pollution build-up from shipping emissions, marine emissions, organic aerosol formation from biogenic and anthropogenic VOC emissions, dust emissions.
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Questioner: J. P. Jalkanen.
Question: Why did you not include the option of revising the ship emission inventories?
Answer: We did include the revision of shipping emission inventories; we ran two different series of simulations using HTAP-V2 shipping emissions and also MACC-III shipping emissions. This is still a work in progress, so we presented the inventories that we have revised until now.
Questioner: J. P. Jalkanen.
Question: What year did you use for ship emission inventories?
Answer: We used HTAP-V2 and MACC-III emissions both for 2010.
Questioner: P.A. Makar.
Question: Did you treat the ship emissions as area sources or like large point sources?
Answer: The anthropic emissions inventory that we use treats shipping emissions as area sources; just as it does for other types of emissions.
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Cholakian, A. et al. (2016). A Modelling Perspective of the Summer 2013 and 2014 ChArMEx/SAFMED Chemistry Intensive Campaigns: Origin of Photo-Oxidant and Aerosol Formation over the Western Mediterranean. In: Steyn, D., Chaumerliac, N. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_14
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