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| Titel |
The satellite and chemical transport model tandem: constraining TM5 with AURA observations |
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Willem W. Verstraeten, Jessica L. Neu, Jason E. Williams, Kevin W. Bowman, John R. Worden, Folkert Boersma |
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EGU General Assembly 2015
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
| Datensatznummer |
250104247
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2015-3668.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Satellite-based studies focusing on tropospheric ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) have the potential to close the gap left by previous studies on air quality. After all, satellites can provide large-scale robust observational evidence that both O3 precursor concentrations and tropospheric O3 levels are rapidly changing over source receptor areas.
Chemical transport models (CTM) significantly contribute to our understanding on transport patterns, production and destruction of tropospheric air constituents, but the infrequently update of emission inventories and the slow implementation of updates on chemical reactions and reaction rates slow down the widespread use.
Satellite observations of tropospheric NO2 have the potential to improve and update anthropogenic NOx emissions in a near-continuous way and may provide information on the life time of NOx, impacting the production and destruction of many air constituents including O3.
Here we show the increased ability of the CTM TM5 to reproduce the 2005-2010 observed strong and rapid rise in free tropospheric ozone of 0.8% per year over China from TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, onboard AURA), once OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument, onboard AURA) NO2 measurements were implemented in TM5 to update NOx emissions. What is more, MLS observations (Microwave Limb Sounder, onboard AURA) on stratospheric ozone demonstrate its potential to constrain the stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) in TM5 which is mainly driven by ECMWF meteorological fields. The use of MLS observations of stratospheric O3 improved the TM5 modelled trends in tropospheric O3 significantly. Thanks to the TM5 input updates from satellite observations, the impact of Asian O3 and its precursors on the western United States could be quantified showing a large import from China to the West. Here we also show that deriving NOx life times from OMI NO2 observations to evaluate new rate constants of the reaction NO2 + OH => HNO3 in TM5 is a promising tool for obtaining better NO2 columns and O3 production rates. |
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