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BIOGENIC HYDROCARBON EMISSION INVENTORY FOR THE U.S. USING A SIMPLE FOREST CANOPY MODEL
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Lamb, B., D. Gay, H. Westburg, AND T. Pierce. BIOGENIC HYDROCARBON EMISSION INVENTORY FOR THE U.S. USING A SIMPLE FOREST CANOPY MODEL. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-94/105 (NTIS PB94155397), 1993.
Description:
A biogenic hydrocarbon emission inventory system, developed for acid deposition and regional oxidant modeling, is described, and results for a U.S. emission inventory are presented. or deciduous and coniferous forests, scaling relationships are used to account for canopy effects upon solar radiation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed as a function of height through the canopy. eaf temperature is calculated iteratively from a leaf energy balance as a function of height through the canopy. he predicted light and temperature levels are used with mean empirical emission rate factors and laboratory emission algorithms to predict hydrocarbon emission rates. or application to a U.S. inventory, diurnal emission fluxes of isoprene, alpha-pinene, other monoterpenes, and other hydrocarbons are predicted for eight land cover classes by state climatic division by month. he total U.S. emissions range from 22 to 50 Tg yr-1 depending upon the formulation of different emission rate factors. n the case where the forest canopy model is not used, the isoprene emissions increase by 50% and terpene emissions increase by 6%. n case study analyses, the predicted leaf temperatures were within 1 to 2 degrees C of observed for a deciduous forest, and predicted emissions were within a factor of two of observations. urther evaluation of the inventory using field measurements is required to determine the overall accuracy of the emission estimates.
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BIOGENIC HYDROCARBON EMISSION INVENTORY FOR THE U.S. USING A SIMPLE FOREST CANOPY MODEL