Author(s)

D.S. Zachary, B. Farooq, A. Haurie & I. Sivergina

Abstract

This paper presents a new application of the reduced order photo-chemical model (TAPOM-Lite) designed for calculating urban ozone levels for varying pollution scenarios. The model is adaptable for any urban region but has been specifically run for the Sharjah-Dubai metropolitan region for this paper. Motivation for the TAPOM-Lite model includes the need for rapid ozone calculations used in the optimization environment. The principal advance in this application is the demonstration of a coupled energy-environmentalmodel for a large metropolitan region. The model has been adapted for the transportation sector of the economy, the principle polluting sector. We demonstrate that by setting bounds on secondary pollutants (O3) and therefore implicitly on

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