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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biogeosciences. 2013 Mar 1;10(3):3977–4023. doi: 10.5194/bgd-10-3977-2013

Table 4.

Evaluation of simulated daily mean and daily maximum pollen concentrations (grains·m−3) for different cases over three grouped regions in southern California.

Mean (grains·m−3)
Maximum (grains·m−3)
OBSa BASE BCON PAHI PALO UTHI UTLO DVHI DVLO OBS BASE BCON PAHI PALO UTHI UTLO DVHI DVLO
Santa Barbara (SBC) b
Birch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 3 3 3 3 5
Grass 8 34 36 42 27 32 35 28 39 44 457 479 605 297 451 465 332 547
Walnut 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 8 4 4 4 3 6
Mulberry 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 4
Olive 2 3 3 4 2 3 3 3 3 15 10 11 19 8 10 12 7 16
Oak 4 22 27 32 13 23 25 16 28 16 223 264 289 171 217 250 199 254
LA Metropolitan Area (LAM) c
Birch 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 3
Grass 10 6 7 19 4 6 6 4 9 36 141 143 178 92 120 159 110 151
Walnut 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 3 10 3 3 3 3 7
Mulberry 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 13 8 8 11 7 8 10 7 10
Olive 6 3 3 5 2 3 3 4 3 46 20 21 37 16 20 27 15 31
Oak 11 7 8 13 4 6 8 9 6 114 58 69 89 49 51 63 50 77
Riverside & Orange (ROC) d
Birch 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3
Grass 5 31 31 43 19 28 34 27 36 13 181 183 262 127 150 201 154 222
Walnut 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 2 7 2 2 2 2 4
Mulberry 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 17 9 9 13 7 9 10 8 12
Olive 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 10 7 7 12 7 7 9 7 8
Oak 29 10 10 16 8 9 10 8 12 159 64 64 82 50 60 69 55 72
a

The description of each simulation cases refer to Table 3.

b

Santa Barbara: includes pollen count sites `SBBG' (Fig. 2);

c

LA Metropolitan Area: includes pollen count sites `CALT', `LBAQ', `GAQM', `SDAE' and `SDLH';

d

Riverside & Orange: includes pollen count sites `AHAQ',`MLAQ' and `RSAQ'.