Climate-forced air-quality modeling at the urban scale: sensitivity to model resolution, emissions and meteorology

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作者
Markakis, K. [1 ]
Valari, M. [1 ]
Perrussel, O. [2 ]
Sanchez, O. [2 ]
Honore, C. [2 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Polytech, Lab Meteorol Dynam, IPSL Lab CEA CNRS UVSQ, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[2] Assoc Surveillance Qualite Air Ile de France, AIRPARIF, F-75004 Paris, France
基金
欧盟第七框架计划;
关键词
PARTICULATE MATTER CONCENTRATIONS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE CHANGES; EASTERN UNITED-STATES; SURFACE-OZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC-POLLUTION; ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS; EUROPEAN CITIES; HEALTH IMPACTS; NORTH-AMERICA;
D O I
10.5194/acp-15-7703-2015
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
While previous research helped to identify and prioritize the sources of error in air-quality modeling due to anthropogenic emissions and spatial scale effects, our knowledge is limited on how these uncertainties affect climate-forced air-quality assessments. Using as reference a 10-year model simulation over the greater Paris (France) area at 4 km resolution and anthropogenic emissions from a 1 km resolution bottom-up inventory, through several tests we estimate the sensitivity of modeled ozone and PM2.5 concentrations to different potentially influential factors with a particular interest over the urban areas. These factors include the model horizontal and vertical resolution, the meteorological input from a climate model and its resolution, the use of a top-down emission inventory, the resolution of the emissions input and the post-processing coefficients used to derive the temporal, vertical and chemical split of emissions. We show that urban ozone displays moderate sensitivity to the resolution of emissions (similar to 8 %), the post-processing method (6.5 %) and the horizontal resolution of the air-quality model (similar to 5 %), while annual PM2.5 levels are particularly sensitive to changes in their primary emissions (similar to 32 %) and the resolution of the emission inventory (similar to 24 %). The air-quality model horizontal and vertical resolution have little effect on model predictions for the specific study domain. In the case of modeled ozone concentrations, the implementation of refined input data results in a consistent decrease (from 2.5 up to 8.3 %), mainly due to inhibition of the titration rate by nitrogen oxides. Such consistency is not observed for PM2.5. In contrast this consistency is not observed for PM2.5. In addition we use the results of these sensitivities to explain and quantify the discrepancy between a coarse (similar to 50 km) and a fine (4 km) resolution simulation over the urban area. We show that the ozone bias of the coarse run (+9 ppb) is reduced by similar to 40% by adopting a higher resolution emission inventory, by 25% by using a post-processing technique based on the local inventory (same improvement is obtained by increasing model horizontal resolution) and by 10% by adopting the annual emission totals of the local inventory. The bias of PM2.5 concentrations follows a more complex pattern, with the positive values associated with the coarse run (+3.6 mu g m(-3)), increasing or decreasing depending on the type of the refinement. We conclude that in the case of fine particles, the coarse simulation cannot selectively incorporate local-scale features in order to reduce its error.
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页码:7703 / 7723
页数:21
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