CAN A MODELLING SYSTEM BIAS AIR QUALITY POLICY SELECTION

Abstract In the frame of the CityDelta project, three different chemistry-transport models, CALGRID, CAMx and STEM were used to simulate different emission scenarios expected up to the year 2010 over a 300×300 km 2 domain located in Northern Italy. The aim of this work is to show the differences between the results produced by the three models. The results show that the three models give very similar results in terms of mean value, but they could give very different responses if the exceedance day indicator is used.