High Performance Computing Simulations of the Atmospheric Composition in Bulgaria and the City of Sofia

Ivelina Georgieva; Georgi Gadzhev; Kostadin Ganev; Dimitrios Melas; Tijian Wang

doi:10.1515/cait-2017-0053

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High Performance Computing Simulations of the Atmospheric Composition in Bulgaria and the City of Sofia

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Volume 17 (2017): Issue 5 (December 2017)

By: Ivelina Georgieva, Georgi Gadzhev, Kostadin Ganev, Dimitrios Melas and Tijian Wang

Open Access

|Jan 2018

Abstract

Some extensive numerical simulations of the atmospheric composition fields in Bulgaria and Sofia have been recently performed. The US EPA Model-3 system was chosen as а modeling tool. A very extensive database was created from simulations which was used for different studies of the atmospheric composition, including the Air Quality (AQ) climate.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0053 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702

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Language: English

Page range: 37 - 48

Published on: Jan 16, 2018

Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

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Keywords:

High Performance Computing (HPC),

simulations,

atmospheric composition,

air pollutants

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Computer sciences,

Information technology

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