Diagnostic Air Quality Model Evaluation of Source-Specific Primary and Secondary Fine Particulate Carbon
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- 作者：Sergey L. Napelenok ; Heather Simon ; Prakash V. Bhave ; Havala O. T. Pye ; George A. Pouliot ; Rebecca J. Sheesley ; James J. Schauer
- 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：January 7, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：48
- 期：1
- 页码：464-473
- 全文大小：483K
- ISSN：1520-5851
文摘
Ambient measurements of 78 source-specific tracers of primary and secondary carbonaceous fine particulate matter collected at four midwestern United States locations over a full year (March 2004鈥揊ebruary 2005) provided an unprecedented opportunity to diagnostically evaluate the results of a numerical air quality model. Previous analyses of these measurements demonstrated excellent mass closure for the variety of contributing sources. In this study, a carbon-apportionment version of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model was used to track primary organic and elemental carbon emissions from 15 independent sources such as mobile sources and biomass burning in addition to four precursor-specific classes of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) originating from isoprene, terpenes, aromatics, and sesquiterpenes. Conversion of the source-resolved model output into organic tracer concentrations yielded a total of 2416 data pairs for comparison with observations. While emission source contributions to the total model bias varied by season and measurement location, the largest absolute bias of 鈭?.55 渭gC/m3 was attributed to insufficient isoprene SOA in the summertime CMAQ simulation. Biomass combustion was responsible for the second largest summertime model bias (鈭?.46 渭gC/m3 on average). Several instances of compensating errors were also evident; model underpredictions in some sectors were masked by overpredictions in others.