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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-title>HERMES_&amp;Delta; v1.0.1: an open-source emission processor for translating official air pollutant and greenhouse gas inventories into model-ready emissions</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guevara</surname>
<given-names>Marc</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tena</surname>
<given-names>Carles</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5768-6758</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Camps</surname>
<given-names>Paula</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Oliveira</surname>
<given-names>Kevin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5582-2747</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gehlen</surname>
<given-names>Johanna</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Albarracin</surname>
<given-names>Angie</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Castesana</surname>
<given-names>Paula</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Collado</surname>
<given-names>Oscar</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Herrero</surname>
<given-names>Laura</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1888-5443</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Legarreta</surname>
<given-names>Oliver</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lombardich</surname>
<given-names>Ivan</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9748-8204</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Piñero-Megías</surname>
<given-names>Carmen</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6737-0407</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rizza</surname>
<given-names>Luca</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Slater</surname>
<given-names>Jessica</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Viñas</surname>
<given-names>Artur</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2297-6231</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Macchia</surname>
<given-names>Francesca</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-5994</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Montane</surname>
<given-names>Gilbert</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7224-9946</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jorba</surname>
<given-names>Oriol</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-0244</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pérez García-Pando</surname>
<given-names>Carlos</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4456-0697</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>54</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Marc Guevara et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>This paper presents the High-Elective Resolution Modelling Emission System delta version (HERMES_&amp;Delta;), an open-source, parallel and flexible emission processing tool to bridge the gap between official inventories and model-ready emissions for air quality and greenhouse gas (GHG) modelling applications. HERMES_&amp;Delta; processes and combines the inventories reported to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with a large collection of detailed spatio-temporal proxies and speciation profiles to create gridded, hourly and speciated emissions for input into a variety of mesoscale modelling systems, including CHIMERE, CMAQ, MOCAGE, MONARCH and WRF-CHEM. Official emissions at sectoral and industrial facility-level of NO&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;, SO&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;, CO, NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;, non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), PM&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;, PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt;, black carbon (BC), CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; are combined, whereafter a detailed horizontal, vertical, temporal and speciation treatment is applied to produce ready-to-use modelling emissions compatible with multiple user-defined grids and chemical mechanisms. As a results, HERMES_&amp;Delta; provides self-consistent air pollutants and GHG high resolution emissions, thus enhancing the integrated analysis of emissions affecting both air pollution and climate change. The paper exemplifies the use of HERMES_&amp;Delta; by processing the Spanish official inventories and describing the methods and sources of information considered to construct the required input information, which can be used as a guidance for potential applications in other countries. Illustrations of HERMES_&amp;Delta; emission outputs and of its computational performance are provided to show its capabilities. The model is designed following a flexible and transparent framework, so that it can be applicable to any European country where the required input data are available. The HERMES_&amp;Delta; code is distributed through a Zenodo repository (&lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21393948&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21393948&lt;/a&gt;, last access: 10/07/2026).</p>
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