Advanced Tools for Black Carbon Dispersion Modelling

This repository contains the source code of four modeling systems used to estimate Black Carbon concentrations over the urban area of Modena (Italy) for the winters of 2020 and 2021. The tools included in this repository are:

• CHIMERE 2017 r4v1 (modified to perform online source apportionment of fossil fuel and biomass burning Black Carbon emissions).
• GRAMM v22.09
• GRAL v22.09
• VERT v0.5

The official software code for these models can be found at the following links:

• CHIMERE chemical transport model: https://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/chimere/
• GRAMM-GRAL modeling suite: https://gral.tugraz.at/ and https://github.com/GralDispersionModel
• VERT traffic emission model: https://gitlab.com/GiorgioVeratti/vert and https://zenodo.org/records/12549513 

The version of the code published on this website is intended solely to provide the exact code used in the study: "Measurement report: Source attribution and estimation of black carbon levels in an urban hotspot of the central Po Valley: An integrated approach combining high-resolution dispersion modelling and micro-aethalometers," accepted in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2641), thus ensuring scientific reproducibility.