Evaluating ammonia (NH 3 ) predictions in the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) using in situ aircraft measurements William Battye,

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Evaluating ammonia (NH 3 ) predictions in the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) using in situ aircraft measurements William Battye, Casey Bray & Viney Aneja, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC & Daniel Tong, Pius Lee & Youhua Tang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Silver Spring, MD Joint FRAPPE – DISCOVER-AQ Science Team Meeting May 4-8, 2015

Introduction Purpose: Improve NH 3 predictions in the Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) to enable accurate forecasting of fine particles (PM 2.5 ) in AirNow (airnow.gov*) Background PM 2.5 impacts Health: aggravated asthma, irregular heartbeat, premature death Ecological: visibility impairment, cloud nucleation impacts NH 3 compounds make up half the mass of PM 2.5 NH 3 emissions are based on allocations, not reporting ____________________________ * Implemented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Other impacts of elevated ammonia (NH 3 ) Nitrogen deposition Nitrogen enrichment & eutrophication Acidification Climate change Formation of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) Browning of organic carbon PM 2.5 Algal blooms (NASA MODIS) Measured wet deposition as NH 4 + (USEPA NADP 2013)

Problems and objectives Problems Because of the nature of NH 3 sources, it is difficult to quantify emissions on the spatial and time scales needed for daily predictions of PM 2.5 NH 3 inventory methods developed in the 1990’s, before ambient measurements Most model validation has focused on final outputs – PM 2.5 and wet deposition Objective and approach Use in-situ and satellite based measurements to test model NH 3 predictions Identify potential improvements for spatial and temporal distribution of NH 3 And they think their doesn’t stink?!

Comparing model results with measurements Measurements Discover-AQ Colorado July-August 2014 Airborne in-situ Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometer Model NAQFC-CMAQ 4-dimensional interpolation to measurement location and time

General comparison for NH 3 and total ammonium near ground level (<1 km altitude) Solid line = model prediction (one-to-one) Dotted line = actual measurement (total ammonium: NH X = NH 3 & NH 4 + )

Vertical NH 3 gradients – measured and modeled

Spatial pattern in relation to NH 3 emission sources Underestimation is more pronounced in areas of relatively high emissions

Spatial pattern of NH 3 underestimation Ratio of measured concentration to modeled concentration for seven clusters of measurements Range of ratio: 1.4 to 4.1

Other NH 3 measurement data Aura satellite Tropospheric Emissions Spectrometer (TES) 5 passes during campaign 10 minute snapshots at midday and midnight AMoN Passive samplers 2-week averages TES on Aura satellite

Comparison of different NH3 data sources Location: Fort Collins Time frame: July-Aug 2014 AMoN: 2 week averages Aircraft and CMAQ: averages of 1-min data over 2 weeks TES: average over 2 weeks

Summer 2014 in relation to broader seasonal NH 3 patterns – Fort Collins AMoN site Aircraft measurements

Summer 2014 in relation to broader seasonal and diurnal NH 3 patterns – TES measurements near Greeley Aircraft measurements

Conclusions Aircraft measurements suggest that the AirNow version of CMAQ, or the emission inventory underestimate NH 3 in the FRAPPE domain Average error at low altitude is more than a factor of 2 Errors are larger in areas of high emissions Errors are larger in the lower atmosphere NH 3 concentrations for summer 2014 are within ranges of longer-term measurements Vertical gradients predicted by the model agree well to measured gradients NH 3 concentrations in the mixed layer are subject to substantial spatial and temporal variability

Next steps Broaden spatial comparisons using AMoN and TES Update NH 3 inventory Incorporate bidirectional NH 3 flux

Acknowledgements NCSU Air Quality Research Group NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Program NASA Langley Research Center, for travel support