THE MEGAPOLI PARIS CAMPAIGN FOR URBAN AEROSOL CHARACTERISATION – A COMPREHENSIVE DATA SET FOR AIR QUALITY MODEL EVALUATION M. Beekmann (1), A. Borbon (1),

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THE MEGAPOLI PARIS CAMPAIGN FOR URBAN AEROSOL CHARACTERISATION – A COMPREHENSIVE DATA SET FOR AIR QUALITY MODEL EVALUATION M. Beekmann (1), A. Borbon (1), J. Sciare (2), V. Gros (2), A. Prevot (3), U. Baltensperger (3), A. Wiedensohler (4), F. Drewnick (5), S. Pandis (6), A. Baklanov (7), M. Lawrence (5), and the MEGAPOLI Paris- campaign team (1) LISA, France, (2) LSCE, France, (3) PSI, Switzerland, (4) IfT, Germany, (5) MPI, Germany, (6) FORTH, Greece, (7) DMI, Denmark, HARMO June 1 – , Paris

I. FP7 MEGAPOLI OBJECTIVES The main objectives Objective 1: to assess impacts of megacities and large air-pollution “hot-spots” on local, regional, and global air quality; Objective 2: to quantify feedbacks between megacity air quality, local and regional climate, and global climate change; Objective 3: to develop improved integrated tools for prediction of air pollution in megacities and their surrounding areas Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation

Ile de France Campaign objectives provide new experimental data to better quantify sources of primary and secondary organic aerosol in a large agglomeration and its plume Document aerosol composition and properties variability Quantify SOA build-up in urban area and plume from VOC Integrated data set for Model evaluation and improvement Aerosol compostion +-phys. chem. properties Gas phase Transport OA Source apportionnement Four major tasks

PARIS 20km Forest Region Ile-de-France = 12 million inhabitants (20% of the French population Population density (PARIS)= 20,000 inh. / km² Surrounded by rural areas Dense scientific infrastructure Why Ile de France region for this campaign ?

Annual PM 2.5 mean concentrations in 2007 and 2008 Traffic stations Urban stations WHO recommandation US-EPA EU limit value (2020) EU limit value (2015) EU target value (2010) EU limit value (2008) Courtesy J. Sciare / LSCE

II. Campaign set-up Summer (July) 2009 campaign Winter (January 15 – Febraury 15) campaign

Instrumentation set-up and parameters measured * In situ ** Gases: *** pollution tracers: CO, O3, NOx, NOy, *** aerosol precursors: (O)VOC (cartridges, PTR-MS….), H2SO4 *** radical budget : OH, HO2, HONO, J’s ** Aerosol *** mass, size and number *** physical properties (volatility, optical, hygroscopicity) *** chemical composition: OA components and individual species, BC, dust, ions, … **** rapid AMS, PILS, MAAP, ECOC **** detailed (filters with ~100 individual compounds) ** Dynamic (wind, T, turbulent fluxes, …) * Remote ** spectroscopic -> gas columns (NO2, HCHO, CO, O3, …..) ** Lidar (backscatter, partly multi-  polarized) ** wind profils (sodar, lidar)

PARIS SIRTA LHVP 20km Forest GOLF POUDRIERE 3 primary sites => full suite of in situ measurements / + meteo at SIRTA. The geographical set-up

3 primary sites => suite of in situ measurements / + meteo at SIRTA. 3 secondary sites => lidar and spectrospcopic measurments / or in some situ PARIS SIRTA LHVP 20km Forest Crétei l Jussieu GOLF POUDRIERE Tour Eiffel, Ballon Air de Paris

3 primary sites => suite of in situ measurements / + meteo at SIRTA. 3 secondary sites => lidar and spectrospcopic measurments / or in some situ 3 mobile labs => full in situ measurements (PSI + MPI) + Univ Duisburg 1 mobile lab => lidar measurements (CEA) 1 mobile lab => MAXDOAS (MPI) PARIS SIRTA LHVP 20km Forest Crétei l Jussieu GOLF POUDRIERE Tour Eiffel, Ballon Air de Paris

3 primary sites => suite of in situ measurements / + meteo at SIRTA. 3 secondary sites => lidar and spectrospcopic measurments / or in some situ 3 mobile labs => full in situ measurements (PSI + MPI) + Univ Duisburg 1 mobile lab => lidar measurements (CEA) 1 mobile lab => MAXDOAS (MPI) 1 aircraft ATR-42 => full in situ measurements (SAFIRE, CNRS, MPI) PARIS SIRTA LHVP 20km Forest Crétei l Jussieu GOLF POUDRIERE Tour Eiffel, Ballon Air de Paris ATR - 42

PARIS SIRTA LHVP 20km Forest Crétei l Jussieu GOLF POUDRIERE Piper Aztec In addition during winter => ALS - LEOSPHERE lidar network (five sites)

Organisation / Participants Initial FP7 partners : CNRS (LISA, LSCE, GAME, LaMP, LGGE, subcontractor SAFIRE), PSI, IfT, FORTH, Univ. Helsinki Additionnal EU Participants : MPI, Univ. College Cork, FMI, Univ. Duisburg Additional French Participants : AIRPARIF, CEREA, Ecole de Mines, INERIS, LCME, LCP- IRA, LATMOS, LHVP, QUALAIR, SIRTA/LMD/IPSL lead : M. Beekmann (LISA-CNRS), U. Baltensperger (PSI) Ground based segment : Jean Sciare, Valerie Gros (LSCE) Airborne segment : Agnès Borbon (LISA) Ad hoc coordinating commitee with above persons, MEGAPOLI coordinators, aircraft instrument PI’s, and site responsibles

III. First campaign results and how to be used for model evaluation Meteo / Transport Emissions Gas phase chemistry (Organic) aerosol chemical composition Aerosol properties

Meteo / Transport Measurement type performed Model parameter or process to be evaluated Lidar and sodar wind profilesSynoptic wind speed Radiosounding wind and T profiles Synoptic wind speed and boundary layer height Surface meteo network (temperature) Urban heat island effect Lidar (ceilometer) derived boundary layer height Urban heat island effect on BL height Passive emission tracers (urban scale NOx, urban + plume BC and NOy) Urban scale dispersion (cumulated with uncertainty on emissions), regional scale advection

July 2009 Surface meteorology in July 2009 SIRTA (suburban sit) Temperature (°C) Precipitation (mm) Wind Direction (deg) Day in July 2009 Hours of the day Occurrence (%) N E S W N Mean temperature diurnal cycle Distribution of wind direction Occurrence of precipitation Measurements made at SIRTA

Surface meteorology in Jan/feb 2010 SIRTA (periurban) Wind Direction (deg) Occurrence (%) N E S W N Distribution of wind direction Jan Measurements made at SIRTA/IPSL Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau M. Haeffelin SIRTA / IPSL Snow and fog at the SIRTA site

PBL height derived from lidar and ceilometer measurements LHVP – SIRTA vs. MM5 and WRF Courtesy M. Haeffelin, SIRTA H. Petetin, LISA

Systematic comparison for July 2009 (afternoon) Difference obs. – sim.

Simulations avec NFS/MM5/ CHIMERE Q. Zhang, M. Beekmann LISA Mesures ATR-42 Aethalometer ( A. Schwarzeboeck, CNRS/ Lamp)

Emissions Measurement type performed Model parameter or process to be evaluated Airborne plume measurements of emission tracers (NOy, VOC, BC) NOx, VOC, BC emissions (spatially integrated over Paris agglomeration) Urban scale VOC ratiosVOC emission ratios, source distribution PM chemical composition (individual tracers), C14 ratio PM and organic aerosol emission source distribution, modern vs. old OA Airborne measurements of biogenic VOC and oxidation products Biogenic VOC emissions over forested areas surrounding Paris agglomeration

EU limit Carbonaceous aerosolsWood burning indicator Pollution alert Courtesy J. Sciare (LSCE) Specific local (wood burning) pollution event

Gas phase chemistry Measurement type performed Model parameter or process to be evaluated Oxidant (sum O3+NO2) content Ozone formation efficiency Urban scale + plume NOy species NOx processing, NOy budget Urban scale + plume VOC species VOC reactivity + secondary VOC build-up Odd hydrogen radical and source/ sink measurements, VOC ratios of different reactivity Odd hydrogen (OH, HO 2, RO 2 ) radical budget, Oxidation capacity

LHVP: long-lived compounds time series Local /regional + continental pollution Local / Regional pollution Courtesy V. Gros, LSCE

Diurnal radical profiles at SIRTA SAMU July 11 July 20 OH RO 2 H 2 SO 4 Blue JO1D Courtesy A. Kukui, LATMOS Combination with HOx source and sink measuements  Radical closure experiment

Aerosol chemistry Measurement type performed Model parameter or process to be evaluated Chemical PM1, PM2.5 mass closure (AMS, PILS, …) Secondary and inorganic aerosol formation AMS HOA + OOA AMS elemental (H,C,O) ratio Oxidative state of organic aerosol OOA/ CO ratio versus – log(NOx/NOy) OOA/ OX ratio Normalized (emissions, photochemistry) secondary aerosol build-up

Context: Large uncertainties on primary and secondary organic sources In addition => Aging of SOA : Oxidation, Oligomerisation / Polymerisation talk Q.J. Zhang on Thursday morning POA is semivolatile and can be oxidised ! (Robinson et al., 2007) POA is semivolatile (Robinson et al., 2007)

HOA Model-VBS Paris Simulation results (LHVP-Urban site) vs. ground based AMS measurements (PM1) µg/m 3 OOA AMS Poor man’s PMFSOA Model -ClassicOOA Model -VBS µg/m 3 POA Model-Classic Continental In VBS, POA  SVOC+IVOC gas phase  reduce POA (aerosol)‏ Local HOA/BBOA AMS Poor man’s PMF

The continental advection case: January OBS. + CHIMERE simulations SULFATE OOANITRATE CHIMERE

Aerosol properties Measurement type performed Model parameter or process to be evaluated Aerosol size distribution, hygroscopicity Correct representation of nucleation, coagulation, hygroscopic growth in models Hygroscopicity and single particle measurements Representation of mixing state Volatility measurementsVolatility representation of organic aerosol

Organic PM Volatility (SIRTA) Thermodenuder+SMPS+PSI AMS Ambient + Heated Organic PM vs Time Typical thermogram (roughly half the OA evaporated at 80 o C) results from FORTH & CM S.Pandis et al.

Conclusion Megapoli Paris campaign data will allow extensive evaluation of urban / regional scale air quality models Pollution plume is well identified at 100 – 150 km downwind from Paris even for rather clean conditions in summer Oxygenated organic aerosol (OOA) seems to be major OA component during summer (preliminary result) Winter : much larger gas phase and aerosol concentrations of both local/regional and continental origin Strong wood burning source for OA in winter

More material Acknowledgements. Support from FP7 / MEGAPOLI ANR French national program French LEFE-CHAT / ADEME Ile de France Soutien SEPPE IdF Other national + lab support Logistical support SIRTA, LHVP, Golf de la Poudrière Forecast PREVAIR

Acknowledgements MEGAPOLI team M. Beekmann 1, U. Baltensperger 2, A. Borbon 1, J. Sciare 3, V. Gros 3, A. Baklanov 4, M. Lawrence 5, S. Pandis 6, V.Kostenidou 6, M.Psichoudaki 6, L. Gomes 7, P. Tulet 7, A. Wiedensohler 8, A. Held *, L. Poulain 8, K.Kamilli 8, W. Birmli 8, A. Schwarzenboeck 9, K. Sellegri 9, A. Colomb 9, J.M. Pichon 9, E.Fernay 9, J.L. Jaffrezo 10, P. Laj 10, C. Afif 1, V. Ait-Helal 1 *, B. Aumont 1, S. Chevailler 1, P. Chelin 1, I. Coll 1, J.F. Doussin 1, R. Durand-Jolibois 1, H. Mac Leod 1, V. Michoud 1, K. Miet 1, N. Grand 1, S. Perrier 1, H. Petetin 1, T. Raventos 1, C. Schmechtig 1, G. Siour 1, C. Viatte 1, Q. Zhang 1 **, P. Chazette 3, M. Bressi 3, M. Lopez 5, P. Royer 3, R. Sarda-Esteve 3, F. Drewnick 5, J. Schneider 5, M. Brands 5, S. Bormann 5, K. Dzepina 5, F. Freutel 5, S. Gallavardin 5, T. Klimach 5, T. Marbach 5, R. Shaiganfar 5, S.L. Von der Weiden 5, T. Wagner 5, S.Zorn 5, P. De Carlo 2, A. Prevot 2, M. Crippa 2, C. Mohr 2, Marie Laborde 2, M. Gysel 2, Roberto Chirico 2, Maarten Heringa 2, A. Butet 11, A. Bourdon 11, E. Mathieu 11, T. Perrin 11, SAFIRE team, J.Wenger 12, R. Healy 12, I.O. Connor 12, E. Mc Gillicuddy 12, P. Alto 13, J.P.Jalkanen 13, M. Kulmala 13, P Lameloise 14, V. Ghersi 14, O. Sanchez 14, A. Kauffman 14, H. Marfaing 14, C. Honoré 14, L. Chiappini 15, O. Favez 15, F. Melleux 15, G. Aymoz 15, B. Bessagnet 15, L. Rouil 15, S. Rossignol 15, M. Haeffelin 16, C. Pietras 16, J. C. Dupont 16, and the SIRTA team, S. Kukui 17, E. Dieudonné 17, F. Ravetta 17, J.C.Raut 17,G. Ancellet 17, F. Goutail 17, J.L Besombes 18, N. Marchand 19, Y. Le Moullec 20, J. Cuesta 21,Y.Te 21, N. Laccoge 22, S. Lolli 23, L. Sauvage 23, S.Loannec 23, D. Ptak 24, A. Schmidt 24, S. Conil 25, M. Boquet 26, 1 Laboratoire InterUniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Université Paris Est et 7, CNRS, Créteil, France, 2 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villingen, Switzerland, 3 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Gif sur Yvette, France,, 4 Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, 6 Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, University of Patras, Greece, 7 Game,Centre National de Recherche Météorologique, Toulouse, France, 8 Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany, 9 Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 10 Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Grenoble, France, 11 SAFIRE, Toulouse, France, 12 University College Cork, Ireland, 13 University Helsinki, Finland, 14 AIRPARIF, Paris, France, 15 INERIS, France,, 16 SIRTA/IPSL, Palaiseau, France, 17 Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France,, 18 Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Environnement, Chambery, France, 19 Laboratoire de Chimie Provence, Marseille, France, 20 Laboratoire de l’Hygiène de la Ville de Paris, France,, 21 Laboratorie de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France, 22 Département Environnement et Chimie, Ecole de Mines de Douais, France,,, 23 LEOSPHERE, France, 24 Universität Duisburg-Essen), Germany, 25 ANDRA, Châtenay-Malabry, France, 26 CEREA, Marne La Vallée, France, **also ARIA-Technologie. France

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Wind profiling by Lidar 29/07 Mixing layer depth retrieval by lidar SUMMER ALS450 - SIRTA 22/01 01/07 Winter hourly mean mixing height by Ceilometer during July 2009 at LHVP, Courtesy N. Eresmaa, FMI Courtesy M. Haeffelin, SIRTA Convective PBL height

Systematic comparison for July 2009 (night) Difference obs. – sim.

Model vs AMS PM1 observations at urban site during July 2009 [µg/m 3 ]