Data · dataset · 2026
The co-benefits of a low-carbon future for PM
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There is considerable academic interest in the potential for air quality improvement as a co-benefit of climate change mitigation.
Description
Few studies use regional air quality models for simulating future co-benefits, but many use global chemistryâclimate model output. Using regional atmospheric chemistry could provide a better representation of air quality changes than global chemistryâclimate models, especially by improving the representation of elevated urban concentrations.
We use a detailed regional atmospheric-chemistry model (WRF-Chem v4.2) to model European air quality in 2050 compared to 2014 following three climate change mitigation scenarios. We represent different climate futures by using air pollutant emissions and chemical boundary conditions (from CESM2-WACCM output) for three shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5 and SSP3-7.0: high-, medium- and low-mitigation pathways respectively).
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We find that in 2050, following SSP1-2.6, mean population-weighted PM2.5 concentrations across European countries are reduced by 52â% compared to 2014. Under SSP2-4.5, this average reduction is 34%. The smallest average reduction is 18â%, achieved following SSP3-7.0.
Maximum 6-monthly-mean daily-maximum 8âh (6mDM8h) ozone (O3) is reduced across Europe by 15â% following SSP1-2.6 and by 3â% following SSP2-4.5, but it increases by 13â% following SSP3-7.0. This demonstrates clear co-benefits of climate mitigation. The additional resolution allows us to analyse regional differences and identify key sectors.
We find that the mitigation of agricultural emissions will be key for attaining meaningful co-benefits of mitigation policies, as evidenced by the importance of changes in NO3 aerosol mass to future PM2.5 air quality and changes in CH4 emissions to future O3 air quality.
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- Publisher page n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7ff3xqc ↗
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- data.ucar.edu /dataset/the-co-benefits-of-a-low-carbon-future-for-pm ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=de4f1454-df57-40e0-8d6c-18f3b236a… ↗
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Climate model simulation 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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