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EPISODE: Eulerian urban air quality model

Simulation 2 MB

Eulerian urban air quality model with embedded subgrid dispersion for high-resolution pollutant concentrations.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4280737
Licence
RPL-1.5 Copyleft open-source licence: use and change it freely, but share any distributed changes under the same licence.
Size
2 MB

How to cite

Slørdal, L. H., Walker, S.-E., Hamer, P., Santos, G. S., Weydahl, T., & Karl, M. (2020). EPISODE Urban Air Quality Model [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4280737

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Details

Resource
Software & tools
Method
Mesoscale model
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Dispersion & air quality
Quantities
Concentration
Codes / models
EPISODE
Year
2020
Creators
Leif Håvard Slørdal; Sam-Erik Walker; Paul Hamer; Gabriela Sousa Santos; Torleif Weydahl; Matthias Karl
Institution
NILU

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