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Article Dans Une Revue Boundary-Layer Meteorology Année : 2016

Cluster Analysis of Atmospheric Dynamics and Pollution Transport in a Coastal Area

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Summertime atmospheric dynamics in the coastal zone of the industrialized Dunkerque agglomeration in northern France was characterized by a cluster analysis of back trajectories in the context of pollution transport. The MESO-NH atmospheric model was used to simulate the local dynamics at multiple scales with horizontal resolution down to 500 m, and for the online calculation of the Lagrangian backward trajectories with 30-min temporal resolution. Airmass transport was performed along six principal pathways obtained by the weighted k-means clustering technique. Four of these centroids corresponded to a range of wind speeds over the English Channel: two for wind directions from the north-east and two from the south-west. Another pathway corresponded to a south-westerly continental transport. The backward trajectories of the largest and most dispersed sixth cluster contained low wind speeds, including sea-breeze circulations. Based on analyses of meteorological data and pollution measurements, the principal atmospheric pathways were related to local air-contamination events. Continuous air quality and meteorological data were collected during the Benzene–Toluene–Ethylbenzene–Xylene 2006 campaign. The sites of the pollution measurements served as the endpoints for the backward trajectories. Pollutant transport pathways corresponding to the highest air contamination were defined.
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hal-03143877 , version 1 (17-02-2021)

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Anton Sokolov, Egor Dmitriev, Elena Maksimovich, Hervé Delbarre, Patrick Augustin, et al.. Cluster Analysis of Atmospheric Dynamics and Pollution Transport in a Coastal Area. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2016, 161 (2), pp.237-264. ⟨10.1007/s10546-016-0174-5⟩. ⟨hal-03143877⟩
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