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Fu JS, Carmichael GR, Dentener F, Aas W, Andersson C, Barrie LA, Cole A, Galy-Lacaux C, Geddes J, Itahashi S, Kanakidou M, Labrador L, Paulot F, Schwede D, Tan J, Vet R. Improving Estimates of Sulfur, Nitrogen, and Ozone Total Deposition through Multi-Model and Measurement-Model Fusion Approaches. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:2134-2142. [PMID: 35081307 PMCID: PMC8962501 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Earth system and environmental impact studies need high quality and up-to-date estimates of atmospheric deposition. This study demonstrates the methodological benefits of multimodel ensemble and measurement-model fusion mapping approaches for atmospheric deposition focusing on 2010, a year for which several studies were conducted. Global model-only deposition assessment can be further improved by integrating new model-measurement techniques, including expanded capabilities of satellite observations of atmospheric composition. We identify research and implementation priorities for timely estimates of deposition globally as implemented by the World Meteorological Organization.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joshua S Fu
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37380, United States
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra VA Italy
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- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, 2007 Kjeller, Norway
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SE-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden
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- Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada
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- Air Quality Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Chiba 270-1194, Japan
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- Environmental Chemical Processes laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion - Crete Greece
- Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Global Atmosphere Watch Programme, Science and Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization, Case postale 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
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- NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Calonia 27709, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Jiani Tan is now in Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Unaffiliated, Markham, Ontario L3R 1P5, Canada
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Galmarini S, Makar P, Clifton OE, Hogrefe C, Bash JO, Bellasio R, Bianconi R, Bieser J, Butler T, Ducker J, Flemming J, Hodzic A, Holmes CD, Kioutsioukis I, Kranenburg R, Lupascu A, Perez-Camanyo JL, Pleim J, Ryu YH, Jose RS, Schwede D, Silva S, Wolke R. Technical note: AQMEII4 Activity 1: evaluation of wet and dry deposition schemes as an integral part of regional-scale air quality models. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2021; 21:1-15663. [PMID: 34824572 PMCID: PMC8609478 DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-15663-2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We present in this technical note the research protocol for phase 4 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII4). This research initiative is divided into two activities, collectively having three goals: (i) to define the current state of the science with respect to representations of wet and especially dry deposition in regional models, (ii) to quantify the extent to which different dry deposition parameterizations influence retrospective air pollutant concentration and flux predictions, and (iii) to identify, through the use of a common set of detailed diagnostics, sensitivity simulations, model evaluation, and reduction of input uncertainty, the specific causes for the current range of these predictions. Activity 1 is dedicated to the diagnostic evaluation of wet and dry deposition processes in regional air quality models (described in this paper), and Activity 2 to the evaluation of dry deposition point models against ozone flux measurements at multiple towers with multiyear observations (to be described in future submissions as part of the special issue on AQMEII4). The scope of this paper is to present the scientific protocols for Activity 1, as well as to summarize the technical information associated with the different dry deposition approaches used by the participating research groups of AQMEII4. In addition to describing all common aspects and data used for this multi-model evaluation activity, most importantly, we present the strategy devised to allow a common process-level comparison of dry deposition obtained from models using sometimes very different dry deposition schemes. The strategy is based on adding detailed diagnostics to the algorithms used in the dry deposition modules of existing regional air quality models, in particular archiving diagnostics specific to land use-land cover (LULC) and creating standardized LULC categories to facilitate cross-comparison of LULC-specific dry deposition parameters and processes, as well as archiving effective conductance and effective flux as means for comparing the relative influence of different pathways towards the net or total dry deposition. This new approach, along with an analysis of precipitation and wet deposition fields, will provide an unprecedented process-oriented comparison of deposition in regional air quality models. Examples of how specific dry deposition schemes used in participating models have been reduced to the common set of comparable diagnostics defined for AQMEII4 are also presented.
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- Air Quality Modelling and Integration Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany
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- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
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- Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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- Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
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