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The presented work is aiming at climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment in Bulgaria. Climate change may affect exposures to air pollutants by affecting weather and thereby local and regional pollution concentrations. Local weather patterns influence atmospheric chemical reactions and can also affect atmospheric transport and deposition processes.
US EPA Models-3 System for a region with resolution of 10 km covering Bulgaria is exploited here. The meteorological background is produced by the climatic version of ALADIN weather forecast system. TNO emission inventory for 2000 is used. The chemical boundary conditions are extracted from 50-km resolution runs over Europe made in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Calculations for the period 1991-2000 are performed, results presented in a study. For year 2000, some scenarios are run, results compared with measured data.
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Syrakov, D. et al. (2010). Climate Change Impact Assessment of Air Pollution Levels in Bulgaria. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12535-5_64
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