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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
Volume 10, Issue 7, Pages 1571-1586Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2017MS001231
Keywords
dry deposition algorithms; model intercomparison; surface resistance; ozone; sulfur dioxide; ensemble modeling
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- Intramural EPA [EPA999999] Funding Source: Medline
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To quantify differences between dry deposition algorithms commonly used in North America, five models were selected to calculate dry deposition velocity (V-d) for O-3 and SO2 over a temperate mixed forest in southern Ontario, Canada, where a 5-year flux database had previously been developed. The models performed better in summer than in winter with correlation coefficients for hourly V-d between models and measurements being approximately 0.6 and 0.3, respectively. Differences in mean V-d values between models were on the order of a factor of 2 in both summer and winter. All models produced lower V-d values than the measurements of O-3 in summer and SO2 in summer and winter, although the measured V-d may be biased. There was not a consistent tendency in the models to overpredict or underpredict for O-3 in winter. Several models produced magnitudes of the diel variation of V-d (O-3) comparable to the measurements, while all models produced slightly smaller diel variations than the measurements of V-d (SO2) in summer. A few models produced larger diel variations than the measurements of V-d for O-3 and SO2 in winter. Model differences were mainly due to different surface resistance parameterizations for stomatal and nonstomatal uptake pathways, while differences in aerodynamic and quasi-laminar resistances played only a minor role. It is recommended to use ensemble modeling results for ecosystem impact assessment studies, which provides mean values of all the used models and thus can avoid too much overestimations or underestimations.
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