A Modeling Study of the Influence of Hemispheric Transport on Trends in O3 Distributions Over North America
Citation:
Mathur, R., D. Kang, S. Napelenok, J. Xing, AND C. Hogrefe. A Modeling Study of the Influence of Hemispheric Transport on Trends in O3 Distributions Over North America. Chapter 2, Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXV. Springer International Publishing AG, Cham (ZG), Switzerland, , 13-18, (2017).
Impact/Purpose:
This Work is a collection of selected papers presented at the 35th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held in Chania (Crete), Greece, Oct 3-7, 2016. Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; long term modelling and trend analysis; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; aerosol transformation. Additionally, this work also examines the relationship between air quality and human health and the effects of climate change on air quality.
Description:
Changing emission patterns across the globe are resulting in heterogeneous changes in tropospheric chemical composition and likely altering the long-range transport of air pollutants and their impact at receptor regions. In this study, we combine results from multi-decadal simulations with the WRF-CMAQ model with source-region sensitivity information derived with the Decoupled Direct Method (DDM) to examine trends in long-range transport contributions to background O 3 concentrations at receptor regions.
