EMEP model in the PRD region

A number of activities are ongoing in order to improve the performance of the EMEP model in Eastern China, and in particular in the PRD region:

update of the land use data (from GLC2000 to GCL2015, merged with PRD2020 and 2035 urban planning maps)

update of emissions: moving from MEIC 2012 to local PRD data provided by the research group of Prof. Zhang Jun Yu / SCUT, and improvement of large point sources (including emission heights) provided by Tsinghua University

testing of boundary conditions and meteorological data

investigation of BVOC emissions

The figure below shows examples of EMEP model performance at a number of stations in the PRD, using different emission data.