The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010
We have analysed the sensitivity of the tropospheric ozone distribution over North America and the North Atlantic to boreal biomass burning emissions during the summer of 2010 using the GEOS-Chem 3-D global tropospheric chemical transport model and observations from in situ and satellite instruments...
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We have analysed the sensitivity of the tropospheric ozone distribution over North America and the North Atlantic to boreal biomass burning emissions during the summer of 2010 using the GEOS-Chem 3-D global tropospheric chemical transport model and observations from in situ and satellite instruments. We show that the model ozone distribution is consistent with observations from the Pico Mountain Observatory in the Azores, ozonesondes across Canada, and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Instrument (IASI) satellite instruments. Mean biases between the model and observed ozone mixing ratio in the free troposphere were less than 10 ppbv. We used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to show the model ozone distribution in the free troposphere over Maritime Canada is largely sensitive to NOx emissions from biomass burning sources in Central Canada, lightning sources in the central US, and anthropogenic sources in the eastern US and south-eastern Canada. We also used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to evaluate the Fire Locating And Monitoring of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) inventory through assimilation of CO observations from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument. The CO inversion showed that, on average, the FLAMBE emissions needed to be reduced to 89% of their original values, with scaling factors ranging from 12% to 102%, to fit the MOPITT observations in the boreal regions. Applying the CO scaling factors to all species emitted from boreal biomass burning sources led to a decrease of the model tropospheric distributions of CO, PAN, and NOx by as much as −20 ppbv, −50 pptv, and −20 pptv respectively. The modification of the biomass burning emission estimates reduced the model ozone distribution by approximately −3 ppbv (−8%) and on average improved the agreement of the model ozone distribution compared to the observations throughout the free troposphere, reducing the mean model bias from 5.5 to 4.0 ppbv for the Pico Mountain Observatory, 3.0 to 0.9 ... |
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School of Geosciences Edinburgh University of Edinburgh (Edin.) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Air Quality Research Division Toronto Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) NRL's Marine Meteorology Division Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan (CEE) Michigan Technological University (MTU) Institute of Arctic Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder (INSTAAR) Spectroscopie de l'atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) TROPO - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR) Department of Physics Toronto University of Toronto |
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Parrington, M. Palmer, P. I. Henze, D. K. Tarasick, D. W. Hyer, E. J. Owen, R. C. Helmig, D. Clerbaux, Cathy Bowman, K. W. Deeter, M. N. Barratt, E. M. Coheur, Pierre-François Hurtmans, Daniel Jiang, Z. George, Maya Worden, J. R. |
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Parrington, M. Palmer, P. I. Henze, D. K. Tarasick, D. W. Hyer, E. J. Owen, R. C. Helmig, D. Clerbaux, Cathy Bowman, K. W. Deeter, M. N. Barratt, E. M. Coheur, Pierre-François Hurtmans, Daniel Jiang, Z. George, Maya Worden, J. R. |
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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 |
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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 |
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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 |
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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 |
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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 |
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influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over north america and the north atlantic during 2010 |
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:hal-00621767v1 2024-05-19T07:45:02+00:00 The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010 Parrington, M. Palmer, P. I. Henze, D. K. Tarasick, D. W. Hyer, E. J. Owen, R. C. Helmig, D. Clerbaux, Cathy Bowman, K. W. Deeter, M. N. Barratt, E. M. Coheur, Pierre-François Hurtmans, Daniel Jiang, Z. George, Maya Worden, J. R. School of Geosciences Edinburgh University of Edinburgh (Edin.) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Air Quality Research Division Toronto Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) NRL's Marine Meteorology Division Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan (CEE) Michigan Technological University (MTU) Institute of Arctic Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder (INSTAAR) Spectroscopie de l'atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) TROPO - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR) Department of Physics Toronto University of Toronto 2012 https://hal.science/hal-00621767 https://hal.science/hal-00621767/document https://hal.science/hal-00621767/file/acp-12-2077-2012.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-2077-2012 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-12-2077-2012 hal-00621767 https://hal.science/hal-00621767 https://hal.science/hal-00621767/document https://hal.science/hal-00621767/file/acp-12-2077-2012.pdf doi:10.5194/acp-12-2077-2012 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.science/hal-00621767 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012, 12 (4), pp.2077-2098. ⟨10.5194/acp-12-2077-2012⟩ [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph] [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2012 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-2077-2012 2024-04-25T04:15:47Z We have analysed the sensitivity of the tropospheric ozone distribution over North America and the North Atlantic to boreal biomass burning emissions during the summer of 2010 using the GEOS-Chem 3-D global tropospheric chemical transport model and observations from in situ and satellite instruments. We show that the model ozone distribution is consistent with observations from the Pico Mountain Observatory in the Azores, ozonesondes across Canada, and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Instrument (IASI) satellite instruments. Mean biases between the model and observed ozone mixing ratio in the free troposphere were less than 10 ppbv. We used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to show the model ozone distribution in the free troposphere over Maritime Canada is largely sensitive to NOx emissions from biomass burning sources in Central Canada, lightning sources in the central US, and anthropogenic sources in the eastern US and south-eastern Canada. We also used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to evaluate the Fire Locating And Monitoring of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) inventory through assimilation of CO observations from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument. The CO inversion showed that, on average, the FLAMBE emissions needed to be reduced to 89% of their original values, with scaling factors ranging from 12% to 102%, to fit the MOPITT observations in the boreal regions. Applying the CO scaling factors to all species emitted from boreal biomass burning sources led to a decrease of the model tropospheric distributions of CO, PAN, and NOx by as much as −20 ppbv, −50 pptv, and −20 pptv respectively. The modification of the biomass burning emission estimates reduced the model ozone distribution by approximately −3 ppbv (−8%) and on average improved the agreement of the model ozone distribution compared to the observations throughout the free troposphere, reducing the mean model bias from 5.5 to 4.0 ppbv for the Pico Mountain Observatory, 3.0 to 0.9 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic HAL Sorbonne Université Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12 4 2077 2098 |