Randall Martin Aaron Van Donkelaar Chris Sioris Kelly Chance Evaluating NOx Emission Inventories in North America and Beyond Yongtao Hu Armistead Russell Jack Dibb Tom Ryerson Ron Cohen UC Berkeley Bill Brune
Cloud-filtered Tropospheric NO 2 Columns Observed from the SCIAMACHY Satellite Instrument (Data ICARTT) May-Oct 2004 detection limit
Error weighting EMIS: Emissions Mapping Integration Science Optimize North American NO x Emissions A priori emissions (SMOKE/Russell) A posteriori emissions Top-Down Emissions May-Oct molecules cm -2 NOx Emissions (SMOKE/G.Tech) SCIAMACHY NO 2 Columns molec N cm -2 s -1 GEOS-CHEM Aug 2004 CMAQ
North American NOx Emissions (May – October) Largest Change in Northeastern US Coast atoms N cm -2 s -1 GEOS-CHEM (NAPAP Scaled to 1998) SCIAMACHY (2004) SCIAMACHY - NAPAP 7.6 Tg N 8.4 Tg N 0.8 Tg N r 2 = 0.85
Evaluate Top-Down and Bottom-Up NOx Inventories Conduct GEOS-CHEM Simulation For Each Inventory Sampled GEOS-CHEM Along Flight Tracks NO x (ppbv) Simulation with SCIAMACHY – Original NOx Emission Inventory HNO 3 (ppbv)
P-3 Measurements Support Top-Down Inventory DC-8 Measurements Inconclusive In Situ GEOS-CHEM (Bottom-up) GEOS-CHEM (Top-Down) New EnglandNew England + Gulf Remote
May-Oct Tg N Tg N Major Discrepancy in NOx Emissions from Megacities GEIA 1998
SCIAMACHY Shows Elevated NOx Export from North America May-Oct 2004 SCIAMACHY NO 2 (10 15 molec cm -2 ) GEOS-CHEM NO 2 (10 15 molec cm -2 ) May-Oct 2004
Explained by Model Bias in Upper Tropospheric NO x GEOS-CHEM NO 2 Cohen NO 2 Errorbars Show 17 th and 83 rd percentiles West of -60 degrees lon, “land”East of -60 degrees lon, “ocean” GEOS-CHEM NO Brune NO GEOS-CHEM low by 7.5% in column GEOS-CHEM low by factor of 2 in column
Thoughts on Using GEOS-CHEM Outside Harvard Support for global and nested 1 degree by 1.25 degree simulation Some way to enable more rapid release of model updates would help ensure that GEOS-CHEM remains nimble Wish List Thank you to those at Harvard (especially Bob) for being communicative! Would be impossible without this.