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Development and Application of the Backward-tracking Model Analyzer to Track Physical and Chemical Processes of Air Parcels during the Transport

대기오염물질의 이동경로상 물리화학적 변화 추적을 위한 Backward-tracking Model Analyzer 방법론 마련

  • Bae, Minah (Ajou University, Department of Environmental Engineering) ;
  • Kim, Hyun Cheol (Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ;
  • Kim, Byeong-Uk (Georgia Environmental Protection Division) ;
  • Kim, Soontae (Ajou University, Department of Environmental Engineering)
  • Received : 2017.02.13
  • Accepted : 2017.04.07
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

An Eulerian-Lagrangian hybrid modeling system to analyze physical and chemical processes during the transport of air parcels was developed. The Backward-tracking Model Analyzer (BMA) was designed to take advantages of both Eulerian and Lagrangian modeling approaches. Simulated trajectories from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration HYSPLIT model were combined with the US Environmental Protection Agency Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ)-simulated concentrations and additional diagnostic analyses. In this study, we first introduced a generalized methodology to seamlessly match polylines (HYSPLIT) and threedimensional polygons (CMAQ), which enables mass-conservative analyses of physio-chemical processes of transporting air parcels. Two applications of the BMA were conducted: (1) a long-range transport case of pollutant plume across the Yellow Sea using CMAQ Integrated Process Rate analyses, and (2) a domestic circulation of pollutants within (and near) the South Korea based on the sulfate tracking analyzer. The first episode demonstrated a secondary formation of nitrate and ammonium during the transport over the Yellow Sea while sulfate is mostly transported after being formed over the China, and the second episode demonstrated a dominant impact of boundary condition with active sulfate formation from gas-phase oxidation near the Seoul Metropolitan Area.

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