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http://dx.doi.org/10.5572/ajae.2017.11.4.330

Development of an Emissions Processing System for Climate Scenario Inventories to Support Global and Asian Air Quality Modeling Studies  

Choi, Ki-Chul (Climate & Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Lee, Jae-Bum (Climate & Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Woo, Jung-Hun (College of Global Integrated Studies, Konkuk University)
Hong, Sung-Chul (Climate & Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Park, Rokjin J. (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Kim, Minjoong J. (Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Myongji University)
Song, Chang-Keun (School of Urban & Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Chang, Lim-Seok (Climate & Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research)
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Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment / v.11, no.4, 2017 , pp. 330-343 More about this Journal
Abstract
Climate change is an important issue, with many researches examining not only future climatic conditions, but also the interaction of climate and air quality. In this study, a new version of the emissions processing software tool - Python-based PRocessing Operator for Climate and Emission Scenarios (PROCES) - was developed to support climate and atmospheric chemistry modeling studies. PROCES was designed to cover global and regional scale modeling domains, which correspond to GEOS-Chem and CMAQ/CAMx models, respectively. This tool comprises of one main system and two units of external software. One of the external software units for this processing system was developed using the GIS commercial program, which was used to create spatial allocation profiles as an auxiliary database. The SMOKE-Asia emissions modeling system was linked to the main system as an external software, to create model-ready emissions for regional scale air quality modeling. The main system was coded in Python version 2.7, which includes several functions allowing general emissions processing steps, such as emissions interpolation, spatial allocation and chemical speciation, to create model-ready emissions and auxiliary inputs of SMOKE-Asia, as well as user-friendly functions related to emissions analysis, such as verification and visualization. Due to its flexible software architecture, PROCES can be applied to any pregridded emission data, as well as regional inventories. The application results of our new tool for global and regional (East Asia) scale modeling domain under RCP scenario for the years 1995-2006, 2015-2025, and 2040-2055 was quantitatively in good agreement with the reference data of RCPs.
Keywords
Emissions processing; Climate scenario; Air quality; Global and Asia modeling;
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