An updated modeling framework to simulate Los Angeles air quality - Part 1: Model development, evaluation, and source apportionment.

Autor: Pennington EA; Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Wang Y; Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA., Schulze BC; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Seltzer KM; Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27711, USA., Yang J; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Zhao B; State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China., Jiang Z; Carbon Neutrality Research Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100084, China., Shi H; Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100084, China., Venecek M; Modeling and Meteorology Branch, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA., Chau D; Modeling and Meteorology Branch, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA., Murphy BN; Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27711, USA., Kenseth CM; Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Ward RX; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Pye HOT; Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27711, USA., Seinfeld JH; Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Atmospheric chemistry and physics [Atmos Chem Phys] 2024 Feb 23; Vol. 24 (4), pp. 2345-2363.
DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-2345-2024
Abstrakt: This study describes a modeling framework, model evaluation, and source apportionment to understand the causes of Los Angeles (LA) air pollution. A few major updates are applied to the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model with a high spatial resolution (1 km × 1 km). The updates include dynamic traffic emissions based on real-time, on-road information and recent emission factors and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) schemes to represent volatile chemical products (VCPs). Meteorology is well predicted compared to ground-based observations, and the emission rates from multiple sources (i.e., on-road, volatile chemical products, area, point, biogenic, and sea spray) are quantified. Evaluation of the CMAQ model shows that ozone is well predicted despite inaccuracies in nitrogen oxide (NO x ) predictions. Particle matter (PM) is underpredicted compared to concurrent measurements made with an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) in Pasadena. Inorganic aerosol is well predicted, while SOA is underpredicted. Modeled SOA consists of mostly organic nitrates and products from oxidation of alkane-like intermediate volatility organic compounds (IVOCs) and has missing components that behave like less-oxidized oxygenated organic aerosol (LO-OOA). Source apportionment demonstrates that the urban areas of the LA Basin and vicinity are NO x -saturated (VOC-sensitive), with the largest sensitivity of O 3 to changes in VOCs in the urban core. Differing oxidative capacities in different regions impact the nonlinear chemistry leading to PM and SOA formation, which is quantified in this study.
Competing Interests: Competing interests. At least one of the (co-)authors is a member of the editorial board of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The peer-review process was guided by an independent editor, and the authors also have no other competing interests to declare.
Databáze: MEDLINE