Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Group (ACMG)

Currently, the group is involved in a number of domestic and foreign projects and produces a large number of scientific publications.

Group leader: Doc. Mgr. Peter Huszár, Ph.D.
Group members: Mgr. Jan Karlický, Ph.D, RNDr. Kateřina Šindelářová, Ph.D, Ing. Jana Marková
Ph.D. students: Lukáš Bartík, Jan Peiker, Alvaro Patricio Prieto Perez, Marina Liaskoni

Research topics

• modeling the influence of urban emissions on local and regional air pollution
• research and modeling of the formation of secondary atmospheric aerosol, especially organic aerosol
• modeling of biogenic emissions and their influence on photochemical processes in the troposphere
• modeling of emissions of wind-blow dust and their effect on aerosol pollution
• validation of chemical-transport models and bias correction.

Models used by the group

• chemical-transport model CAMx (www.camx.com)
• reggional climate and weather prediction model with online coupled chemistry WRF-Chem (https://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem)
• emission preprocessor FUME (http://fume-ep.org/)
• emission model for estimating the net emission of gases and aerosols from terrestrial ecosystems into the atmosphere MEGAN (https://bai.ess.uci.edu/megan/data-and-code/megan21)
• regional climate model with online coupled chemistry RegCM-Chem (https://github.com/ICTP/RegCM)

Projects

The group is currently participating in the projects FOCI (evaluation of the climate impact of non-CO₂ emissions), OP JAK Georizika (complex quantification of anthropogenic and natural georisks), ARAMIS (development and application of tools for the evaluation of factors affecting air pollution) and projects CAMS and CAMEO, in which our department is in charge of developing emission inventories of biogenic volatile organic substances released from terrestrial vegetation and estimation of isoprene emission uncertainties from the CAMS-GLOB-BIO inventory.

The group also obtained significant outputs from the completed projects URBI PRAGENSI (development of tools for forecasting air pollution in Prague), UCCI (high-resolution modeling of the interaction of atmospheric chemistry with urban climate) and „GACR Postdoc“ project (influence of urban emissions on regional air quality and climate).

International cooperation

• Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, BOKU (BOKU-Met; https://boku.ac.at/en/wau/met), Vienna – Prof. Harald Rieder
  • cooperation in modelling tropospheric chemistry
  • joint projects: MŠMT Mobility project, FWF AKTION project, GAČR LA projekt (submitted, under evaluation)
• Laboratoire Atmosphères & Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL; https://www.latmos.ipsl.fr/index.php/en/), Paris – Prof. Cathy Clerbaux
  • cooperation in modelling with WRF-Chem, biogenic model MEGAN and satellite data analysis
  • joint projects: MŠMT Mobility project
• Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, GMGEC : Groupe de Météorologie de Grande Echelle et Climat (http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?rubrique89&lang=fr), Toulouse – David Salas y Melia
  • cooperation in the field of global cliamte-chemistry modelling (impact of aviation emissions on climate)

Further partners cooperating within projects CAMS2_61 and CAMEO.

• Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Hague, Netherlands – https://www.tno.nl/en
• Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany – https://mpimet.mpg.de
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain – https://www.bsc.es
• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF), Reading, United Kingdom – https://www.ecmwf.int/en
• Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland – https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway – https://www.met.no
• Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden – https://www.chalmers.se/en

Publication

• BARTÍK, L., Huszár, P., Karlický, J., Vlček, O., and Eben, K.: Modeling the drivers of fine PM pollution over Central Europe: impacts and contributions of emissions from different sources, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 4347–4387, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4347-2024, 2024.
• BELDA, M., Benešová, N., Resler, J., Huszár, P., Vlček, O., Krč, P., Karlický, J., Juruš, P., and Eben, K.: FUME 2.0 – Flexible Universal processor for Modeling Emissions, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3867–3878, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3867-2024, 2024.
• HUSZAR, P., Prieto Perez, A. P., Bartík, L., Karlický, J., and Villalba-Pradas, A.: Impact of urbanization on fine particulate matter concentrations over central Europe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 397–425, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-397-2024, 2024.
• Karlický, J., Rieder, H.E., Huszár, P., Peiker, J. and Sukhodolov, T.: A cautious note advocating the use of ensembles of models and driving data in modeling of regional ozone burdens, Air. Qual. Atmos. Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-024-01516-3, 2024.
• ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – ARELLANO, Santiago – GINOUX, Paul – GRANIER, Claire – LENNARTZ, Sinikka T. – SIMPSON, David. Natural Emissions on Global Scale. In: AKIMOTO, Hajime – TANIMOTO, Hiroshi. Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change. 1. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2023, s. 53–93. ISBN 978–981–15–2759–3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2760-9_7.
• PATON-WALSH, Clare – SUBRAMANIAN, R. – CRAWFORD, James H. – DAWIDOWSKI, Laura – DEWITT, H. Langley – EMBERSON, Lisa – EMMONS, Louisa – GARLAND, Rebecca M. – KANAYA, Yugo – MBANDI, Aderiana – PRATT, Kerri A. – ROJAS, Nestor Y. – SALAM, Abdus – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – SINHA, Vinayak – TOURE, N'Datchoh Evelyne – YU, Liya E. – ZHENG, Mei. The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines. Environmental Research Letters. 2023, 18(11), 111001. ISSN 1748–9326. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad039f.
• LIASKONI, Marina Despoina – HUSZÁR, Peter – BARTÍK, Lukáš – PRIETO PEREZ, Alvaro Patricio – KARLICKÝ, Jan – VLCEK, Ondrej. Modelling the European wind-blown dust emissions and their impact on particulate matter (PM) concentrations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2023, 23(6), 3629–3654. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3629-2023.
• PRIETO PEREZ, Alvaro Patricio – HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan. Extreme PM and Ozone Pollution over Central Europe: Interactions of the Urban Canopy Meteorological Forcing and Radiative Effects of Urban Emissions. In: ŠAFRÁNKOVÁ, Jana – PAVLŮ, Jiří. WDS'22 Proceedings of Contributed Papers — Physics. 1.Praha: Matfyzpress, 2022, s. 204–210. ISBN 978–80–7378–477–5.
• SOKHI, Ranjeet S – MOUSSIOPOULOS, Nicolas – BAKLANOV, Alexander – BARTZIS, John – COLL, Isabelle – FINARDI, Sandro – FRIEDRICH, Rainer – GEELS, Camilla – GRONHOLM, Tiia – HALENKA, Tomáš – KETZEL, Matthias – MARAGKIDOU, Androniki – MATTHIAS, Volker – MOLDANOVA, Jana – NTZIACHRISTOS, Leonidas – SCHAFER, Klaus – SUPPAN, Peter – TSEGAS, George – CARMICHAEL, Greg – FRANCO, Vicente – HANNA, Steve – JALKANEN, Jukka-Pekka – VELDERS, Guus J. M – KUKKONEN, Jaakko. Advances in air quality research – current and emerging challenges. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2022, 22(7), 4615–4703. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4615-2022.
• STAEHLE, C. – MAYER, M. – KIRCHSTEIGER, B. – KLAUS, V. – KULT-HERDIN, J. – SCHMIDT, C. – SCHREIER, S. – KARLICKÝ, Jan – TRIMMEL, H. – KASPER-GIEBL, A. – SCHERLLIN-PIRSCHER, B. – RIEDER, H. E.. Quantifying changes in ambient NOx, O3 and PM10 concentrations in Austria during the COVID-19 related lockdown in spring 2020. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health [online]. 2022, 15(11), 1993–2007. ISSN 1873–9318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-022-01232-w.
• ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – MARKOVÁ, Jana – SIMPSON, David – HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – DARRAS, Sabine – GRANIER, Claire. High-resolution biogenic global emission inventory for the time period 2000–2019 for air quality modelling. Earth System Science Data. 2022, 14(1), 251–270. ISSN 1866–3508. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-251-2022.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – BARTÍK, Lukáš – LIASKONI, Marina Despoina – PRIETO PEREZ, Alvaro Patricio – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. Impact of urbanization on gas-phase pollutant concentrations: a regional-scale, model-based analysis of the contributing factors. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2022, 22(18), 12647–12674. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12647-2022.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – MARKOVÁ, Jana – NOVÁKOVÁ, Tereza – LIASKONI, Marina Despoina – BARTÍK, Lukáš. The regional impact of urban emissions on air quality in Europe: the role of the urban canopy effects. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2021, 21(18), 14309–14332. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14309-2021.
• BARTÍK, Lukáš – HUSZÁR, Peter – VLČEK, Ondřej – EBEN, Kryštof. Sensitivity of Secondary Inorganic Aerosol Concentrations to Precursor Emissions and Inorganic Aerosol Modules in CAMx over Central Europe. In: ŠAFRÁNKOVÁ, Jana – PAVLŮ, Jiří. WDS'21 Proceedings of Contributed Papers — Physics. 1st ed.Praha: Matfyzpress, 2021, s. 77–84. ISBN 978–80–7378–455–3.
• LIASKONI, Marina Despoina – BARTÍK, Lukáš – HUSZÁR, Peter. Modeling Wind-blown Dust Over Europe and Their Impact on the PM2.5 Concentrations. In: ŠAFRÁNKOVÁ, Jana – PAVLŮ, Jiří. WDS'21 Proceedings of Contributed Papers — Physics. 1st ed.Praha: Matfyzpress, 2021, s. 67–76. ISBN 978–80–7378–455–3.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – MARKOVÁ, Jana – NOVÁKOVÁ, Tereza – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – ŠVÁBIK, Filip – BELDA, Michal – HALENKA, Tomáš – ŽÁK, Michal. The impact of urban land-surface on extreme air pollution over central Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2020, 20(20), 11655–11681. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11655-2020.
• KARLICKÝ, Jan – HUSZÁR, Peter – NOVÁKOVÁ, Tereza – BELDA, Michal – ŠVÁBIK, Filip – MARKOVÁ, Jana – HALENKA, Tomáš. The „urban meteorology island“: a multi-model ensemble analysis. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2020, 20(23), 15061–15077. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15061-2020.
• KARLICKÝ, Jan. Letter to Editor on „Environmental impact of personal consumption from life cycle perspective – A Czech Republic case study“. Science of the Total Environment. 2020, 737(1 October 2020), 137651. ISSN 0048–9697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137651.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – ĎOUBALOVÁ, Jana – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – NOVÁKOVÁ, Tereza – BELDA, Michal – HALENKA, Tomáš – ŽÁK, Michal – PIŠOFT, Petr. Urban canopy meteorological forcing and its impact on ozone and PM2.5: role of vertical turbulent transport. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2020, 20(4), 1977–2016. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1977-2020.
• ĎOUBALOVÁ (Marková), Jana – HUSZÁR, Peter – EBEN, Krystof – BENESOVA, Nina – BELDA, Michal – VLČEK, Ondřej – KARLICKÝ, Jan – GELETIC, Jan – HALENKA, Tomáš. High Resolution Air Quality Forecasting over Prague within the URBI PRAGENSI Project: Model Performance during the Winter Period and the Effect of Urban Parameterization on PM. Atmosphere. 2020, 11(6), 625. ISSN 2073–4433. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060625.
• HALENKA, Tomáš – BELDA, Michal – HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – NOVÁKOVÁ, Tereza – ŽÁK, Michal. On the comparison of urban canopy effects parameterisation. International Journal of Environment and Pollution. 2019, 65(1–3), 177–194. ISSN 0957–4352. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEP.2019.101840.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – BELDA, Michal – KARLICKÝ, Jan – BARDACHOVA, Tatsiana – HALENKA, Tomáš – PIŠOFT, Petr. Impact of urban canopy meteorological forcing on aerosol concentrations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2018, 18(19), 14059–14078. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14059-2018.
• KARLICKÝ, Jan – HUSZÁR, Peter – HALENKA, Tomáš – BELDA, Michal – ŽÁK, Michal – PIŠOFT, Petr – MIKŠOVSKÝ, Jiří. Multi-model comparison of urban heat island modelling approaches. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2018, 18(14), 10655–10674. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10655-2018.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – KARLICKÝ, Jan – BELDA, Michal – HALENKA, Tomáš – PIŠOFT, Petr. The impact of urban canopy meteorological forcing on summer photochemistry. Atmospheric Environment. 2018, 2018(176), 209–228. ISSN 1352–2310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.12.037.
• KARLICKÝ, Jan – HUSZÁR, Peter – HALENKA, Tomáš. Validation of gas phase chemistry in the WRF-Chem model over Europe. In: PIRINGER, Martin. ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH. 14th ed.GOTTINGEN: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, 2017, s. 181–186. ISSN 1992–0628. https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-181-2017.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – BELDA, Michal – HALENKA, Tomáš. On the long-term impact of emissions from central European cities on regional air quality. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2016, 16(3), 1331–1352. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-1331-2016.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – BELDA, Michal – KARLICKÝ, Jan – PIŠOFT, Petr – HALENKA, Tomáš. The regional impact of urban emissions on climate over central Europe: present and future emission perspectives. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2016, 16(20), 12993–13013. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12993-2016.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – HALENKA, Tomáš – BELDA, Michal – ŽÁK, Michal – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – MIKŠOVSKÝ, Jiří. Regional climate model assessment of the urban land-surface forcing over central Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2014, 2014(14), 12393–12413. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12393-2014.
• ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina – GRANIER, C. – BOUARAR, I. – GUENTHER, A. – TILMES, S. – STAVRAKOU, T. – MULLER, J. -F. – KUHN, U. – STEFANI, P. – KNORR, W.. Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over the last 30 years. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2014, 2014(17), 9317–9341. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-9317-2014.
• HALENKA, Tomáš – HUSZÁR, Peter – BELDA, Michal – ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. Air quality and climate interaction within urban environment. In: BÄRING, Lars – RECKERMANN, Marcus – ROCKEL, Burkhardt – RUMMUKAINEN, Markku. Workshop Proceedings of the 3rd International Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modelling Workshop ”21st Century Challenges in Regional Climate Modelling”. 3rd ed.Lund: International Baltic Earth Secretariat, 2014, s. 111–112. ISSN 2198–4247.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – TEYSSEDRE, H. – MICHOU, M. – VOLDOIRE, A. – OLIVIE, D. J. L. – SAINT-MARTIN, D. – CARIOLLE, D. – SENESI, S. – MELIA, D. Salas Y. – ALIAS, A. – KARCHER, F. – RICAUD, P. – HALENKA, Tomáš. Modeling the present and future impact of aviation on climate: an AOGCM approach with online coupled chemistry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2013, 13(19), 10027–10048. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10027-2013.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – MIKŠOVSKÝ, Jiří – PIŠOFT, Petr – BELDA, Michal – HALENKA, Tomáš. Interactive coupling of a regional climate model and a chemical transport model: evaluation and preliminary results on ozone and aerosol feedback. Climate Research. 2012, 51(1), 59–88. ISSN 0936–577X. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01054.
• JUDA-REZLER, Katarzyna – REIZER, Magdalena – HUSZÁR, Peter – KRUEGER, Bernd C. – ZANIS, Prodromos – SYRAKOV, Dimiter – KATRAGKOU, Eleni – TRAPP, Wojciech – MELAS, Dimitris – CHERVENKOV, Hristo – TEGOULIAS, Ioannis – HALENKA, Tomáš. Modelling the effects of climate change on air quality over Central and Eastern Europe: concept, evaluation and projections. Climate Research. 2012, 53(3), 179–203. ISSN 0936–577X. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01072.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – JUDA-REZLER, Katarzyna – HALENKA, Tomáš – CHERVENKOV, Hristo – SYRAKOV, Dimitri – KRÜGER, Bernd – ZANIS, Prodromos – MELAS, Dimitris – KATRAGKOU, Eleni – REIZER, Magdalena – TRAPP, Wojciech – BELDA, Michal. Effects of climate change on ozone and -particulate matter over Central and Eastern Europe. Climate Research. 2011, 2011(50), 51–68. ISSN 0936–577X. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01036.
• ZANIS, Prodromos – KATRAGKOU, Eleni – TEGOULIAS, Ionnas – POUPKOU, Anastasia – MELAS, Dimitrios – HUSZÁR, Peter – GIORGI, Filippo. Evaluation of near surface ozone in air quality simulations forced by a regional climate model over Europe for the period 1991–2000. Atmospheric Environment. 2011, 2011(45), 6489–6500. ISSN 1352–2310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.09.001.
• HUSZÁR, Peter – HALENKA, Tomáš – BELDA, Michal – MIKŠOVSKÝ, Jiří – PIŠOFT, Petr – CARIOLLE, Daniel – PAOLI, Roberto – SCHLAGER, Hans. Modeling the regional impact of ship emissions on NOx and ozone levels over the EasternAtlantic and Western Europe using ship plume parameterization. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2010, 2010(10), 6645–6660. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-6645-2010.
• KATRAGKOU, Eleni – ZANIS, Prodromos – TEGOULIAS, Ioannis – MELAS, Dimitris – KIOUTSIOUKIS, Ioannis – KRÜGER, Bernd C. – HUSZÁR, Peter – HALENKA, Tomáš – RAUSCHER, Sarah. Decadal regional air quality simulations over Europe in present climate: near surface ozone sensitivity to external meteorological forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2010, 2010(10), 11805–11821. ISSN 1680–7316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-11805-2010.