Grantee Research Project Results
Final Report: Constraining Urban-To-Global Scale Estimates of Black Carbon Distributions, Sources, Regional Climate Impacts, and Co-Benefit Metrics with Advanced Coupled Dynamic - Chemical Transport - Adjoint Models
EPA Grant Number: R835037Title: Constraining Urban-To-Global Scale Estimates of Black Carbon Distributions, Sources, Regional Climate Impacts, and Co-Benefit Metrics with Advanced Coupled Dynamic - Chemical Transport - Adjoint Models
Investigators: Carmichael, Gregory R. , Henze, Daven K , Grell, Georg , Spak, Scott
Institution: University of Iowa , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , University of Colorado at Boulder
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2014 (Extended to August 31, 2015)
Project Amount: $895,432
RFA: Black Carbon's Role In Global To Local Scale Climate And Air Quality (2010) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Climate Change , Air
Objective:
In this project, we will evaluate and rank sources of uncertainty in modeling black carbon (BC) concentrations and their radiative impacts. The uncertainties analyzed will include those associated with model parameters as well as model structure. We will use this information to improve model representation of BC distributions. We will reduce the uncertainties in BC distributions and radiative impacts through the close integration of observations and models. We will evaluate the uncertainties using novel metrics developed in this project that will reflect competing effects of co-pollutants and that account for air quality and climate impacts.
Summary/Accomplishments (Outputs/Outcomes):
Journal Articles on this Report : 26 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Gao M, Carmichael GR, Wang Y, Ji D, Liu Z, Wang Z. Improving simulations of sulfate aerosols during winter haze over Northern China: the impacts of heterogeneous oxidation by NO2. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2016;10(5):16 (11 pp.). |
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Gao M, Carmichael GR, Saide PE, Lu Z, Yu M, Streets DG, Wang Z. Response of winter fine particulate matter concentrations to emission and meteorology changes in North China. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2016;16(18):11837-11851. |
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Gao M, Saide PE, Xin J, Wang Y, Liu Z, Wang Y, Wang Z, Pagowski M, Guttikunda SK, Carmichael GR. Estimates of health impacts and radiative forcing in winter haze in eastern China through constraints of surface PM2.5 predictions. Environmental Science & Technology 2017;51(4):2178-2185. |
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Gao M, Liu Z, Wang Y, Lu X, Ji D, Wang L, Li M, Wang Z, Zhang Q, Carmichael GR. Distinguishing the roles of meteorology, emission control measures, regional transport, and co-benefits of reduced aerosol feedbacks in “APEC Blue”. Atmospheric Environment 2017;167:476-486. |
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Guerrette JJ, Henze DK. Development and application of the WRFPLUS-Chem online chemistry adjoint WRFDA-Chem assimilation system. Geoscientific Model Development 2015;8(6):1857-1876. |
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Guerrette JJ, Henze DK. Four-dimensional variational inversion of black carbon emissions during ARCTAS-CARB with WRFDA-Chem. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2017;17(12):7605-7633. |
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Huang M Carmichael GR, Kulkarni S, Streets DG, Lu Z, Zhang Q, Pierce RB, Kondo Y, Jimenez JL, Cubison MJ, Anderson B, Wisthaler A. Sectoral and geographical contributions to summertime continental United States (CONUS) black carbon spatial distributions. Atmospheric Environment 2012;51:165-174. |
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Kulkarni S, Sobhani N, Miller-Schulze JP, Shafer MM, Schauer JJ, Solomon PA, Saide PE, Spak SN, Cheng YF, Denier van der Gon HAC, Lu Z, Streets DG, Janssens-Maenhout G, Wiedinmyer C, Lantz J, Artamonova M, Chen B, Imashev S, Sverdlik L, Deminter JT, Adhikary B, D'Allura A, Wei C, Carmichael GR. Source sector and region contributions to BC and PM2.5 in Central Asia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2015;15(4):1683-1705. |
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Liang F, Gao M, Xiao Q, Carmichael GR, Pan X, Liu Y. Evaluation of a data fusion approach to estimate daily PM2.5 levels in North China. Environmental Research 2017;158:54-60. |
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Mao YH, Li QB, Henze DK, Jiang Z, Jones DBA, Kopacz M, He C, Qi L, Gao M, Hao W-M, Liou K-N. Estimates of black carbon emissions in the western United States using the GEOS-Chem adjoint model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2015;15(13):7685-7702. |
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Marrapu P, Cheng Y, Beig G, Sahu S, Srinivas R, Carmichael GR. Air quality in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2014;14(19):10619-10630. |
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Mena-Carrasco M, Saide P, Delgado R, Hernandez P, Spak S, Molina L, Carmichael G, Jiang X. Regional climate feedbacks in Central Chile and their effect on air quality episodes and meteorology. Urban Climate 2014;10(5):771-781. |
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Nordmann S, Cheng YF, Carmichael GR, Yu M, Denier van der Gon HAC, Zhang Q, Saide PE, Poschl U, Su H, Birmili W, Wiedensohler A. Atmospheric black carbon and warming effects influenced by the source and absorption enhancement in central Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2014;14(23):12683-12699. |
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Qi L, Li Q, Henze DK, Tseng HL, He C. Sources of springtime surface black carbon in the Arctic: an adjoint analysis for April 2008. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics 2017;17(15):9697-9716. |
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Saide PE, Carmichael GR, Liu Z, Schwartz CS, Lin HC, da Silva AM, Hyer E. Aerosol optical depth assimilation for a size-resolved sectional model: impacts of observationally constrained, multi-wavelength and fine mode retrievals on regional scale analyses and forecasts. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2013;13(20):10425-10444. |
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Saide PE, Kim J, Song CH, Choi M, Cheng Y, Carmichael GR. Assimilating next generation geostationary aerosol optical depth retrievals to improve air quality simulations. Geophysical Research Letters 2014;41(24):9188-9196. |
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Saide PE, Spak SN, Pierce RB, Otkin JA, Schaack TK, Heidinger AK, da Silva AM, Kacenelenbogen M, Redemann J, Carmichael GR. Central American biomass burning smoke can increase tornado severity in the U.S. Geophysical Research Letters 2015;42(3):956-965. |
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Saide PE, Peterson DA, da Silva A, Anderson B, Ziemba LD, Diskin G, Sachse G, Hair J, Butler C, Fenn M, Jimenez JL, Campuzano-Jost O, Perring A, Schwarz JP, Markovic MZ, Russell P, Redemann J, Shinozuka Y, Streets DG, Yan F, Dibb J, Yokelson R, Toon OB, Hyer E, Carmichael GR. Revealing important nocturnal and day to-day variations in fire smoke emissions through a novel multiplatform inversion. Geophysical Research Letters 2015;42(9):3609-3618. |
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Shen Z, Liu J, Horowitz LW, Henze DK, Fan S, Levy II H, Mauzerall DL, Lin J-T, Tao S. Analysis of transpacific transport of black carbon during HIPPO-3: implications for black carbon aging. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2014;14(12):6315-6327. |
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Sobhani N, Kulkarni S, Carmichael G. Source sector and region contributions to black carbon and PM2.5 in the Arctic. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2018;18(24):18123-18148. |
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Tsao C-C, Campbell JE, Mena-Carrasco M, Spak SN, Carmichael GR, Chen Y. Biofuels that cause land-use change may have much larger non-GHG air quality emissions than fossil fuels. Environmental Science & Technology 2012;46(19):10835-10841. |
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Wyant MC, Bretherton CS, Wood R, Carmichael GR, Clarke A, Fast J, George R, Gustafson WI, Hannay C, Lauer A, Lin Y, Morcrette J-J, Mulcahy J, Saide PE, Spak SN, Yang Q. Global and regional modeling of clouds and aerosols in the marine boundary layer during VOCALS: the VOCA intercomparison. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2015;15(1):153-172. |
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Zhang L, Kok JF, Henze DK, Li Q, Zhao C. Improving simulations of fine dust surface concentrations over the western United States by optimizing the particle size distribution. Geophysical Research Letters 2013;40(12):3270-3275. |
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Zhang L, Henze DK, Grell GA, Carmichael GR, Bousserez N, Zhang Q, Cao J. Constraining black carbon aerosol over Southeast Asia using OMI aerosol absorption optical depth and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 2014;14:28385-28452. |
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Zhang L, Henze DK, Grell GA, Carmichael GR, Bousserez N, Zhang Q, Torres O, Ahn C, Lu Z, Cao J, Mao Y. Constraining black carbon aerosol over Asia using OMI aerosol absorption optical depth and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2015;15(18):10281-10308. |
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Zhang L, Henze DK, Grell GA, Torres O, Jethva H, Lamsal LN. What factors control the trend of increasing AAOD over the United States in the last decade? Journal of Geophysical Research--Atmospheres 2017;122(3):1797-1810. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Public health, environmental policy, mitigation, inverse modeling, black carbon, radiative forcing, chemical transportProgress and Final Reports:
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