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Answer: In this work, it was only considered the impact of green infrastructures,
such as green parks and green roofs. Although, the impact of vertical green infrastructures may also be assessed following the same procedure applied in this work.
Nevertheless, it is required to evaluate a particular case study in order to determine
a quantitative radius for the impact of these infrastructures, taking into account that
the impact of these infrastructures on air quality strongly depends on the specific
meteorological conditions and on the morphological characteristics of each case
study.
Acknowledgements Thanks are due for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017 –
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007638), to the FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC), and the
co-funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. The
authors also acknowledge the Portuguese “Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior”
for the PhD Grant of Sandra Sorte (SFRH/BD/117164/2016).
References
1. J.H. Amorim, V. Rodrigues, R. Tavares, J. Valente, C. Borrego, CFD modelling of the aerodynamic effect of trees on urban air pollution dispersion. Sci. Tot. Environ. 461–462, 541–551
(2013)
2. S. Janhäll, Review on urban vegetation and particle air pollution—Deposition and dispersion.
Atmos. Environ. 105, 130–137 (2015)
3. K. Markakis, M. Valari, A. Colette, O. Sanchez, O. Perrussel, C. Honore, R. Vautard, Z. Klimont,
S. Rao, Air quality in the mid-21st century for the city of Paris under two climate scenarios:
from the regional to local scale. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14, 7323–7340 (2014)
4. E. Sá, H. Martins, J. Ferreira, M. Marta-Almeida, A. Rocha, A. Carvalho, S. Freitas, C. Borrego,
Climate change and pollutant emissions impacts on air quality in 2050 over Portugal. Atmos.
Environ. 131, 209–224 (2016)
5. W.C. Skamarock, J.B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D.O. Gill, D.M. Barker, X.Y. Huang, W. Wang, J.G.
Powers, A description of the advanced research WRF version 3. NCAR/TN-475+STR (Colorado,
USA, 2008), p. 113
6. V. Rodrigues, S. Rafael, S. Sorte, S. Coelho, H. Relvas, B. Vicente, J. Leitão, M. Lopes, A.I.
Miranda, C. Borrego, Adaptation to climate change at local scale: a CFD study in Porto urban
area, in Computational Fluid Dynamics—Basic Instruments and Applications in Science, ed. by
A. Ionescu (InTechOpen, 2018), pp. 163–186
V. Rodrigues et al.
Answer: In this work, it was only considered the impact of green infrastructures,
such as green parks and green roofs. Although, the impact of vertical green infrastructures may also be assessed following the same procedure applied in this work.
Nevertheless, it is required to evaluate a particular case study in order to determine
a quantitative radius for the impact of these infrastructures, taking into account that
the impact of these infrastructures on air quality strongly depends on the specific
meteorological conditions and on the morphological characteristics of each case
study.
Acknowledgements Thanks are due for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017 –
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007638), to the FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC), and the
co-funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. The
authors also acknowledge the Portuguese “Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior”
for the PhD Grant of Sandra Sorte (SFRH/BD/117164/2016).
References
1. J.H. Amorim, V. Rodrigues, R. Tavares, J. Valente, C. Borrego, CFD modelling of the aerodynamic effect of trees on urban air pollution dispersion. Sci. Tot. Environ. 461–462, 541–551
(2013)
2. S. Janhäll, Review on urban vegetation and particle air pollution—Deposition and dispersion.
Atmos. Environ. 105, 130–137 (2015)
3. K. Markakis, M. Valari, A. Colette, O. Sanchez, O. Perrussel, C. Honore, R. Vautard, Z. Klimont,
S. Rao, Air quality in the mid-21st century for the city of Paris under two climate scenarios:
from the regional to local scale. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14, 7323–7340 (2014)
4. E. Sá, H. Martins, J. Ferreira, M. Marta-Almeida, A. Rocha, A. Carvalho, S. Freitas, C. Borrego,
Climate change and pollutant emissions impacts on air quality in 2050 over Portugal. Atmos.
Environ. 131, 209–224 (2016)
5. W.C. Skamarock, J.B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D.O. Gill, D.M. Barker, X.Y. Huang, W. Wang, J.G.
Powers, A description of the advanced research WRF version 3. NCAR/TN-475+STR (Colorado,
USA, 2008), p. 113
6. V. Rodrigues, S. Rafael, S. Sorte, S. Coelho, H. Relvas, B. Vicente, J. Leitão, M. Lopes, A.I.
Miranda, C. Borrego, Adaptation to climate change at local scale: a CFD study in Porto urban
area, in Computational Fluid Dynamics—Basic Instruments and Applications in Science, ed. by
A. Ionescu (InTechOpen, 2018), pp. 163–186