Section: Software

Urban air quality analysis

Participants : Anne Tilloy, Vivien Mallet.

“Urban Air Quality Analysis” carries out data assimilation at urban scale. It merges the outputs of a numerical model (maps of pollutant concentrations) with observations from an air quality monitoring network, in order to produce the so-called analyses, that is, corrected concentration maps. The data assimilation computes the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE), with a call to the data assimilation library Verdandi. The error covariance matrices are parameterized for both model simulations and observations. For the model state error covariances, the parameterization primarily relies on the road network. The software handles ADMS output files, for a posteriori analyses or in an operational context.