42 Can Assimilation of Ground Particulate Matter Observations
Improve Air Pollution Forecasts for Highly Polluted Area
of Europe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Małgorzata Werner, Maciej Kryza and Jakub Guzikowski
43 Assimilation of Meteorological Data in Online Integrated
Atmospheric Transport Model—Example of Air Quality
Forecasts for Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Maciej Kryza, Małgorzata Werner and Jakub Guzikowski
44 Distinguishing Between Remote and Local Air Pollution
Over Taiwan: An Approach Based on Pollution Homogeneity
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Pavel Kishcha, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Neng-Huei Lin,
Arlindo da Silva, Tang-Huang Lin, Po-Hsiung Lin, Gin-Rong Liu,
Boris Starobinets and Pinhas Alpert
45 Overview of the 2018 Canadian Operational Regional Air
Quality Deterministic Prediction System: New Features
and Performance Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Verica Savic-Jovcic, Michael Moran, Radenko Pavlovic,
Hugo Landry, Qiong Zheng, Junhua Zhang, Alexandru Lupu,
Sylvain Ménard, Ayodeji Akingunola, Sylvie Gravel, Mourad Sassi
and Didier Davignon
46 PROGNOS: A Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
Initiative to Renew the Operational Statistical Post-processing
Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Stavros Antonopoulos, Christian Saad, Jacques Montpetit,
Andrew Teakles and Jonathan Baik
Part V Model Assessment and Verification
47 Hierarchical Clustering for Optimizing Air Quality Monitoring
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Joana Soares, Paul Makar, Yayne-Abeba Aklilu
and Ayodeji Akingunola
48 Continental-Scale Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition Over
North America and Europe Using the AQMEII Database . . . . . . . 305
Christian Hogrefe, Stefano Galmarini, Efisio Solazzo,
Roberto Bianconi, Roberto Bellasio, Peng Liu and Rohit Mathur
49 Multi Model Study on the Impact of Emissions on CTMs . . . . . . . 309
Johannes Bieser, Martin Otto Paul Ramacher, Marje Prank,
Efisio Solazzo and Andreas Uppstu
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Improve Air Pollution Forecasts for Highly Polluted Area
of Europe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Małgorzata Werner, Maciej Kryza and Jakub Guzikowski
43 Assimilation of Meteorological Data in Online Integrated
Atmospheric Transport Model—Example of Air Quality
Forecasts for Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Maciej Kryza, Małgorzata Werner and Jakub Guzikowski
44 Distinguishing Between Remote and Local Air Pollution
Over Taiwan: An Approach Based on Pollution Homogeneity
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Pavel Kishcha, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Neng-Huei Lin,
Arlindo da Silva, Tang-Huang Lin, Po-Hsiung Lin, Gin-Rong Liu,
Boris Starobinets and Pinhas Alpert
45 Overview of the 2018 Canadian Operational Regional Air
Quality Deterministic Prediction System: New Features
and Performance Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Verica Savic-Jovcic, Michael Moran, Radenko Pavlovic,
Hugo Landry, Qiong Zheng, Junhua Zhang, Alexandru Lupu,
Sylvain Ménard, Ayodeji Akingunola, Sylvie Gravel, Mourad Sassi
and Didier Davignon
46 PROGNOS: A Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
Initiative to Renew the Operational Statistical Post-processing
Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Stavros Antonopoulos, Christian Saad, Jacques Montpetit,
Andrew Teakles and Jonathan Baik
Part V Model Assessment and Verification
47 Hierarchical Clustering for Optimizing Air Quality Monitoring
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Joana Soares, Paul Makar, Yayne-Abeba Aklilu
and Ayodeji Akingunola
48 Continental-Scale Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition Over
North America and Europe Using the AQMEII Database . . . . . . . 305
Christian Hogrefe, Stefano Galmarini, Efisio Solazzo,
Roberto Bianconi, Roberto Bellasio, Peng Liu and Rohit Mathur
49 Multi Model Study on the Impact of Emissions on CTMs . . . . . . . 309
Johannes Bieser, Martin Otto Paul Ramacher, Marje Prank,
Efisio Solazzo and Andreas Uppstu
xxii
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