CO source contribution analysis for California during ARCTAS-CARB
Air pollution is of concern in many parts of California and is impacted by both local emissions and also by pollution inflow from the North Pacific Ocean. In this study, we use the regional chemical transport model WRF-Chem V3.2 together with the global Model for OZone and Related Chemical Tracers t...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_10610 2023-09-05T13:17:46+02:00 CO source contribution analysis for California during ARCTAS-CARB Pfister, Gabriele (author) Avise, J. (author) Wiedinmyer, Christine (author) Edwards, David (author) Emmons, Louisa (author) Diskin, G. (author) Podolske, J. (author) Wisthaler, Armin (author) 2011-08-01 application/pdf http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-003-132 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-7515-2011 en eng Copernicus Publications Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-003-132 doi:10.5194/acp-11-7515-2011 ark:/85065/d7ks6s3g Copyright Authors 2011. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. ARCTAS-CARB Source contributions WRF-Chem CO tracers Pollution inflow Text article 2011 ftncar https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-7515-2011 2023-08-14T18:39:01Z Air pollution is of concern in many parts of California and is impacted by both local emissions and also by pollution inflow from the North Pacific Ocean. In this study, we use the regional chemical transport model WRF-Chem V3.2 together with the global Model for OZone and Related Chemical Tracers to examine the CO budget over California. We include model CO tracers for different emission sources in the models, which allow estimation of the relative importance of local sources versus pollution inflow on the distribution of CO at the surface and in the free troposphere. The focus of our study is on the 15 June - 15 July 2008 time period, which coincides with the aircraft deployment of the NASA Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission over California. Model simulations are evaluated using these aircraft observations as well as satellite retrievals and surface observations of CO. Evaluation results show that the model overall predicts the observed CO fields well, but points towards an underestimate of CO from the fires in Northern California, which had a strong influence during the study period, and towards a slight overestimate of CO from pollution inflow and local anthropogenic sources. The analysis of the CO budget over California reveals that inflow of CO explains on average 99 ± 11 ppbV of surface CO during the study period, compared to 61 ± 95 ppbV for local anthropogenic direct emissions of CO and 84 ± 194 ppbV for fires. In the free troposphere, the average CO contributions are estimated as 96 ± 7 ppbV for CO inflow, 8 ± 9 ppbV for CO from local anthropogenic sources and 18 ± 13 ppbV for CO from fires. Accounting for the low bias in the CO fire emission inventory, the fire impact during the study period might have been up to a factor 4 higher than the given estimates. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Arctic Pacific Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11 15 7515 7532 |
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Air pollution is of concern in many parts of California and is impacted by both local emissions and also by pollution inflow from the North Pacific Ocean. In this study, we use the regional chemical transport model WRF-Chem V3.2 together with the global Model for OZone and Related Chemical Tracers to examine the CO budget over California. We include model CO tracers for different emission sources in the models, which allow estimation of the relative importance of local sources versus pollution inflow on the distribution of CO at the surface and in the free troposphere. The focus of our study is on the 15 June - 15 July 2008 time period, which coincides with the aircraft deployment of the NASA Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission over California. Model simulations are evaluated using these aircraft observations as well as satellite retrievals and surface observations of CO. Evaluation results show that the model overall predicts the observed CO fields well, but points towards an underestimate of CO from the fires in Northern California, which had a strong influence during the study period, and towards a slight overestimate of CO from pollution inflow and local anthropogenic sources. The analysis of the CO budget over California reveals that inflow of CO explains on average 99 ± 11 ppbV of surface CO during the study period, compared to 61 ± 95 ppbV for local anthropogenic direct emissions of CO and 84 ± 194 ppbV for fires. In the free troposphere, the average CO contributions are estimated as 96 ± 7 ppbV for CO inflow, 8 ± 9 ppbV for CO from local anthropogenic sources and 18 ± 13 ppbV for CO from fires. Accounting for the low bias in the CO fire emission inventory, the fire impact during the study period might have been up to a factor 4 higher than the given estimates. |
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Pfister, Gabriele (author) Avise, J. (author) Wiedinmyer, Christine (author) Edwards, David (author) Emmons, Louisa (author) Diskin, G. (author) Podolske, J. (author) Wisthaler, Armin (author) |
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CO source contribution analysis for California during ARCTAS-CARB |
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CO source contribution analysis for California during ARCTAS-CARB |
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CO source contribution analysis for California during ARCTAS-CARB |
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