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http://dx.doi.org/10.5572/KOSAE.2013.29.2.186

An Evaluation of the Influence of Boundary Conditions from GEOS-Chem on CMAQ Simulations over East Asia  

Choi, Dae-Ryun (Department of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Anyang University)
Koo, Youn-Seo (Department of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Anyang University)
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Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment / v.29, no.2, 2013 , pp. 186-198 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present work is an attempt to improve the performance of a regional air quality model by means of liking it with a global chemistry transport model. The global chemical transport model of GEOS-Chem is used to provide BC (Boundary Condition)s which reflect temporal and spatial variations at boundaries of regional chemical transport model of CMAQ over East Asia. First, GEOS-Chem outputs are evaluated by comparing predicted concentrations with observed monthly data of gas phase species and secondary inorganic aerosols from EANET (Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia) sites. The results show that predicted PM10 concentrations are in good agreement with the observations. This implies that GEOS-Chem outputs could be used to provide BCs to CMAQ. Simulated daily and monthly mean PM10 concentrations of CMAQ with the linkage of GEOS-Chem's BCs and constant BCs are then evaluated by comparing predicted concentrations with observations at API (Air Pollution Index) sites in China as well as EANET sites in Korea. CMAQ with the GEOS-Chem outputs improves model simulation in depicting observed PM10 concentrations comparing with those with constant BCs. It is also found that influence of aerosol species are largely dependent on the BCs over East Asia and Korea. Mean biases between simulated versus observed daily and monthly mean concentrations of PM10 with the GEOS-chem were improved by 1~8 ${\mu}g/m^3$ in China region, 3.26 ${\mu}g/m^3$ in Korea.
Keywords
CMAQ; GEOS-Chem; Boundary condition; EANET; API; PM10;
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