The project established a new long-term measurement infrastructure in London encompassing measurement capabilities at street level, in the urban background, at elevated levels and in the rural surrounding to determine the urban increment in meteorology and air pollution. These measurements were accompanied by high resolution modeling with the UK Met Office Unified model and WRF. This combined measuring/modelling approach enables us to identify the seasonal cycle in the meteorology and composition, together with the controlling processes. Two intensive observation periods in January/February 2012 and during the Olympics in summer 2012 measured London's atmosphere with higher level of detail. These IOPs will enable us (i) to determine the vertical structure and evolution of the urban atmosphere (ii) to determine the chemical controls on ozone production, particularly the role of biogenic emissions and (iii) to determine the processes controlling the evolution of the size, distribution and composition of particulate matter.
In this talk we combine the long-term air pollution measurements over two years with turbulence measurements at surface and elevated levels within London and analyse the role the meteorology plays for air pollution concentrations. In particular we show measurements that indicate the dominant regimes of London's boundary layer, and demonstrates the role of the structure of the urban boundary layer and its mixing properties on measured concentrations of O3 and NOx.
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