The effects of green infrastructure on pollutant concentrations are greatly variable, essentially depending on the surrounding built-up environment and on local meteorological conditions. To simulate the effects of the presence of trees at urban scale, a reliable methodology is the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach, however it needs high calculation costs. An alternative integral dispersion model is given by provided that a suitable parameterization for vegetation is included. In this work, we have developed and demonstrated a novel methodology, based on aerodynamic parameters, to include the aerodynamic effect of trees in an operational dispersion model, the ADMS-Urban. The aerodynamic parameters were derived using the morphometric method starting from open data containing information on buildings and trees. The new roughness parameter calculation method has produced the urban spatially varying roughness (USVR) and it was evaluated in different scenarios at the urban and neighborhood scale. The numerical outputs of the simulations were compared with observations from reference air quality stations collected within an ad-hoc intensive field campaign conducted in 2017 in the city of Bologna, Italy. The results of the comparison highlight that the introduction of the aerodynamic effects of buildings lead to great improvements in the performance of the model at both spatial scales and for the different study sites considered in this study. Conversely, the inclusion of trees in the calculation produces significant improvements only when conducting studies at high spatial resolution and for densely vegetated areas.

A new approach for roughness representation within urban dispersion models / Di Nicola, F.; Brattich, E.; Di Sabatino, S.. - In: ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 1352-2310. - STAMPA. - 283:(2022), pp. 119181.1-119181.17. [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119181]

A new approach for roughness representation within urban dispersion models

Di Nicola, F.
;
Brattich, E.;Di Sabatino, S.
2022

Abstract

The effects of green infrastructure on pollutant concentrations are greatly variable, essentially depending on the surrounding built-up environment and on local meteorological conditions. To simulate the effects of the presence of trees at urban scale, a reliable methodology is the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach, however it needs high calculation costs. An alternative integral dispersion model is given by provided that a suitable parameterization for vegetation is included. In this work, we have developed and demonstrated a novel methodology, based on aerodynamic parameters, to include the aerodynamic effect of trees in an operational dispersion model, the ADMS-Urban. The aerodynamic parameters were derived using the morphometric method starting from open data containing information on buildings and trees. The new roughness parameter calculation method has produced the urban spatially varying roughness (USVR) and it was evaluated in different scenarios at the urban and neighborhood scale. The numerical outputs of the simulations were compared with observations from reference air quality stations collected within an ad-hoc intensive field campaign conducted in 2017 in the city of Bologna, Italy. The results of the comparison highlight that the introduction of the aerodynamic effects of buildings lead to great improvements in the performance of the model at both spatial scales and for the different study sites considered in this study. Conversely, the inclusion of trees in the calculation produces significant improvements only when conducting studies at high spatial resolution and for densely vegetated areas.
2022
A new approach for roughness representation within urban dispersion models / Di Nicola, F.; Brattich, E.; Di Sabatino, S.. - In: ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 1352-2310. - STAMPA. - 283:(2022), pp. 119181.1-119181.17. [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119181]
Di Nicola, F.; Brattich, E.; Di Sabatino, S.
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