Table 1.

Key features (meteorological/chemistry and transport models, emissions, horizontal and vertical grids) of the regional models participating to the AQMEII3 health impact study and the perturbation scenarios they performed.

Group code	Model	Emissions*	Horizontal resolution	Vertical resolution	Gas phase	Aerosol model	Europe				North America
							BASE	GLO	NAM	EUR	BASE	GLO	EAS	NAM
DEI	COSMO-CLM/CMAQ	HTAP	24 km × 24 km	30 layers, 50hPa	CB5-TUCL	3 modes	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×
DK1	WRF/DEHM	HTAP	17 km × 17 km	29 layers, 100 hPa	Brandt et al. (2012)	2 modes	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×
ESI	WRF/CHEM	MACC	23 km × 23 km	33 layers, 50hPa	RADM2	3 modes, MADE/SORGAM	×		×
FI1	ECMWF/SILAM	MACC+HTAP	0.25° × 0.25°	12 layers, 13 km	CB4	1–5 bins, VBS	×	×	×	×
FRES1	ECMWF/CHIMERE	HTAP+HTAP	0.25° × 0.25°	9 layers, 50hPa	MELCHIOR2	8 bins	×	×	×	×
IT1	WRF/CHEM	MACC	23 km × 23 km	33 layers, 50hPa	RACM-ESRL	3 modes, MADE/VBS	×	×		×
IT2	WRF/CAMs	MACC	23 km × 23 km	14 layers, 8 km	CB5	3 modes	×	×
NL1	LOTOS/EUROS	MACC	0.50° × 0.25°	4 layers, 3.5 km	CB4	2 modes, VBS	×
TR1	WRF/CMAQ	MACC	30 km × 30 km	24 layers, lOhPa	CB5	3 modes	×	×	×
UK1	WRF/CMAQ	MACC	15km × 15km	23 layers, 100 hPa	CB5-TUCL	3 modes	×	×	×	×
UK2	WRF/CMAQ	HTAP	30 km × 30 km	23 layers, 100 hPa	CB5-TUCL	3 modes	×	×
UK3	WRF/CMAQ	MACC	18km × 18km	35 layers, 16 km	CB5	3 modes	×	×	×
US3	WRF/CMAQ	SMOKE	12km × 12km	35 layers, 50hPa	CB5-TUCL	3 modes					×	×	×	×

^*MACC: modeling group used only the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) emissions, MACC+HTAP: modeling group used MACC emissions for Europe and HTAP emissions over north Africa.