Detailed report of the effect of PCSs on air quality in the future CC (2050) in the target cities Deliverable 6.5 iSCAPE project

This report is the output of the work carried out in Task 6.4.2 of the iSCAPE project, which focuses on the evaluation of the effectiveness of Passive Control Systems (PCS) on air quality under future climate change scenarios in the target cities. The evaluation of the efficacy of PCSs has been conducted by reconstructing detailed air quality maps in three iSCAPE cities, namely Bologna, Dublin and Vantaa, chosen as representative of south, western and north Europe respectively. Following a thorough validation of all numerical models used in present scenarios, simulations have been conducted using downscaled climate projections for the three cities. Changes in air quality in future climate scenarios and in the presence or absence of selected PCSs are documented allowing to extract recommendations for the selected cities and easily extendable to other European cities.