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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 463, Issue -, Pages 754-771Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.003
Keywords
Tropospheric HCHO columns; CMAQ model; SCIAMACHY; Biogenic isoprene emission
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Funding
- GEMS program of the Ministry of Environment, Korea
- Eco Innovation Program of KEITI [2012000160004]
- Eco-Innovation project
- Korean Ministry of Environment
- Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development [CATER 2012-7110]
- Korea Meteorological Administration [CATER-2012-7110] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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In this study, the accuracy of biogenic isoprene emission fluxes over East Asia during two summer months (July and August) was examined by comparing two tropospheric HCHO columns (Omega(HcHO)) obtained from the SCIAMACHY sensor and the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ v4.7.1) model simulations, using three available biogenic isoprene emission inventories over East Asia: i) GEIA, ii) MEGAN and iii) MOHYCAN. From this comparative analysis, the tropospheric HCHO columns from the CMAQ model simulations, using the MEGAN and MOHYCAN emission inventories (Omega(CMAQ) (MEGAN) and Omega(CMAQ), (MOHYGAN)), were found to agree well with the tropospheric HCHO columns from the SCIAMACHY observations (Omega(SCIA)). Secondly, the propagation of such uncertainties in the biogenic isoprene emission fluxes to the levels of atmospheric oxidants (e.g., OH and HO2) and other atmospheric gaseous/particulate species over East Asia during the two summer months was also investigated. As the biogenic isoprene emission fluxes decreased from the GEIA to the MEGAN emission inventories, the levels of OH radicals increased by factors of 1.39 and 1.75 over Central East China (CEC) and South China, respectively. Such increases in the OH radical mixing ratios subsequently influence the partitioning of HOy species. For example, the HO2/OH ratios from the CMAQ model simulations with GEIA isoprene emissions were 2.7 times larger than those from the CMAQ model simulations based on MEGAN isoprene emissions. The large HO2/OH ratios from the CMAQ model simulations with the GEIA biogenic emission were possibly due to the overestimation of GEIA biogenic isoprene emissions over East Asia. It was also shown that such large changes in HO radicals created large differences on other tropospheric compounds (e.g., NO chemistry) over East Asia during the summer months. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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