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<strong>PM2.5</strong> <strong>in</strong> the UK<br />

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2. Figure A2.1.1 shows the moderate levels of PM build<strong>in</strong>g up and subsid<strong>in</strong>g<br />

over a series of days. This is demonstrated <strong>in</strong> Figure A2.1.2 which gives an<br />

extract from the model evaluation of 16 Automatic Urban and Rural Network<br />

(AURN) urban background sites from around the UK for the period 12-26<br />

April 2011. The evaluation is based on hourly values and dur<strong>in</strong>g this period<br />

model performance was with<strong>in</strong> acceptable limits as def<strong>in</strong>ed by the Model<br />

Evaluation Protocol (Derwent et al., 2009a). Table A2.1.1 summarises the model<br />

performance for a selection of rural, urban background and urban AURN sites.<br />

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Figure A2.1.2: Evaluation of CMAQ forecast with hourly PM10 provisional data<br />

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