<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bessagnet, B.,,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cuvelier, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Meij, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monteiro, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pisoni, E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thunis, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Violaris, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kushta, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Denby, B.R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mu, Q.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wærsted, E.G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vivanco, M.G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theobald, M.R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gil, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sokhi, R.S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Momoh, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alyuz, U.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">VPM, R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kumar, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bossioli, E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Methymaki, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brzoja, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milić, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A, Papi,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pennel, R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mailler, S.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Menut, L.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Briganti, G.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mircea, M.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flandorfer, C.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baumann-Stanzer, K.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hutsemékers, V.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trimpeneers, E.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Assessment of the sensitivity of model responses to urban emission changes in support of emission reduction strategies</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Air Quality, Atmosphere &amp; Health</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-023-01469-z</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The sensitivity of air quality model responses to modifications in input data (e.g. emissions, meteorology and boundary conditions)&lt;br&gt;or model configurations is recognized as an important issue for air quality modelling applications in support of air quality&lt;br&gt;plans. In the framework of FAIRMODE (Forum of Air Quality Modelling in Europe, https:// fairm ode. jrc. ec. europa. eu/) a&lt;br&gt;dedicated air quality modelling exercise has been designed to address this issue. The main goal was to evaluate the magnitude&lt;br&gt;and variability of air quality model responses when studying emission scenarios/projections by assessing the changes of model&lt;br&gt;output in response to emission changes. This work is based on several air quality models that are used to support model users&lt;br&gt;and developers, and, consequently, policy makers. We present the FAIRMODE exercise and the participating models, and&lt;br&gt;provide an analysis of the variability of O3&lt;br&gt;and PM concentrations due to emission reduction scenarios. The key novel feature,&lt;br&gt;in comparison with other exercises, is that emission reduction strategies in the present work are applied and evaluated at urban&lt;br&gt;scale over a large number of cities using new indicators such as the absolute potential, the relative potential and the absolute&lt;br&gt;potency. The results show that there is a larger variability of concentration changes between models, when the emission reduction&lt;br&gt;scenarios are applied, than for their respective baseline absolute concentrations. For ozone, the variability between models&lt;br&gt;of absolute baseline concentrations is below 10%, while the variability of concentration changes (when emissions are similarly&lt;br&gt;perturbed) exceeds, in some instances 100% or higher during episodes. Combined emission reductions are usually more efficient&lt;br&gt;than the sum of single precursor emission reductions both for O3&lt;br&gt;and PM. In particular for ozone, model responses, in terms of&lt;br&gt;linearity and additivity, show a clear impact of non-linear chemistry processes. This analysis gives an insight into the impact of&lt;br&gt;model’ sensitivity to emission reductions that may be considered when designing air quality plans and paves the way of more&lt;br&gt;in-depth analysis to disentangle the role of emissions from model formulation for present and future air quality assessments.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>