Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 8 4 2008 10.5194/acpd-8-15537-2008 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/15537/2008/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/15537/2008/acpd-8-15537-2008.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/15537/2008/acpd-8-15537-2008.pdf 15537 15594 2008-08-15 Dispersion of traffic-related exhaust particles near the Berlin urban motorway: estimation of fleet emission factors W. Birmili birmili@tropos.de B. Alaviippola D. Hinneburg O. Knoth T. Tuch J. Kleefeld-Borken A. Schacht Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UfZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany German Aerospace Center (DLR), Transportation Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany now at: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria Atmospheric particle number size distributions of airborne particles (diameter range 10–500 nm) were measured over ten weeks at three sites in the vicinity of the A100 urban motorway in Berlin, Germany. The A100 carries about 180 000 vehicles on a weekday, and roadside particle size distributions showed a number maximum between 20 and 60 nm clearly related to the motorway emissions. The average total number concentration at roadside was 28 000 cm−3 with a total range between 1200 and 168 000 cm−3. At distances of 80 and 400 m from the motorway the concentrations decreased to mean levels of 11 000 and 9 000 cm−3, respectively. An obstacle-resolving dispersion model was applied to simulate the 3-D flow field and traffic tracer transport in the urban environment around the motorway. By inverse modelling, vehicle emission factors were derived, representative of a relative share of 6% lorry-like vehicles, and a driving speed of about 80 km h−1. Three different calculation approaches were compared, which differ in the choice of the experimental winds driving the flow simulation. The average emission factor per vehicle was 2.1(±0.2) · 1014 km−1 for particle number and 0.077(±0.01) · 1014 cm3 km−1 for particle volume. Regression analysis suggested that lorry-like vehicles emit 116 (± 21) times more particulate number than passenger car-like vehicles, and that lorry-like vehicles account for about 91% of particulate number emissions on weekdays. Our work highlights the increasing applicability of 3-D flow models in urban microscale environments and their usefulness in determining traffic emission factors. 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