Balance of emission and dynamical controls on ozone during the Korea-United States Air Quality Campaign from multiconstituent satellite data assimilation

Global multiconstituent concentration and emission fields obtained from the assimilation of the satellite retrievals of ozone, CO, NO2, HNO3, and SO2 from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment 2, Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere, Microwave Limb Sounder, and Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)/OMI are used to understand the processes controlling air pollution during the Korea-United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) campaign. Estimated emissions in South Korea were 0.42TgN for NOx and 1.1Tg CO for CO, which were 40% and 83% higher, respectively, than the a priori bottom-up inventories, and increased mean ozone concentration by up to 7.51.6ppbv. The observed boundary layer ozone exceeded 90ppbv over Seoul under stagnant phases, whereas it was approximately 60ppbv during dynamical conditions given equivalent emissions. Chemical reanalysis showed that mean ozone concentration was persistently higher over Seoul (75.107.6ppbv) than the broader KORUS-AQ domain (70.59.2ppbv) at 700hPa. Large bias reductions (>75%) in the free tropospheric OH show that multiple-species assimilation is critical for balanced tropospheric chemistry analysis and emissions. The assimilation performance was dependent on the particular phase. While the evaluation of data assimilation fields shows an improved agreement with aircraft measurements in ozone (to less than 5ppbv biases), CO, NO2, SO2, PAN, and OH profiles, lower tropospheric ozone analysis error was largest at stagnant conditions, whereas the model errors were mostly removed by data assimilation under dynamic weather conditions. Assimilation of new AIRS/OMI ozone profiles allowed for additional error reductions, especially under dynamic weather conditions. Our results show the important balance of dynamics and emissions both on pollution and the chemical assimilation system performance.

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Author Miyazaki, K.
Sekiya, T.
Fu, D.
Bowman, K. W.
Kulawik, S. S.
Sudo, K.
Walker, T.
Kanaya, Y.
Takigawa, M.
Ogochi, K.
Eskes, H.
Boersma, K. F.
Thompson, A. M.
Gaubert, Benjamin
Barre, J.
Emmons, Louisa K.
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Publication Date 2019-01-16T00:00:00
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Suggested Citation Miyazaki, K., Sekiya, T., Fu, D., Bowman, K. W., Kulawik, S. S., Sudo, K., Walker, T., Kanaya, Y., Takigawa, M., Ogochi, K., Eskes, H., Boersma, K. F., Thompson, A. M., Gaubert, Benjamin, Barre, J., Emmons, Louisa K.. (2019). Balance of emission and dynamical controls on ozone during the Korea-United States Air Quality Campaign from multiconstituent satellite data assimilation. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d700053j. Accessed 09 February 2025.

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