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Portugal has a quite extensive coastline associated with significant terrain features and sea/land breeze circulation, which results in a complex wind field with strong implications for the production and transport patterns of photochemical pollutants with a typical time-scale larger than 24 hours. Since the coastal zone is a major component in global budgets and global resources availability and utilisation, effective sustainable management strategies in such areas require a special ability to think beyond divisions between different types of resources and human activities. Portuguese littoral is the region with the highest population density and economic development. The resulting pollutant emissions place a high pressure on the environment and natural resources of the Portuguese urban coastal areas.
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Borrego, C., Barros, N., Miranda, A.I., Carvalho, A.C., Valinhas, M.J. (2000). Validation of two Photochemical Numerical Systems Under Complex Mesoscale Circulations. In: Gryning, SE., Batchvarova, E. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4153-0_61
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