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Title: | A multi-model comparison of meteorological drivers of surface ozone over Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. |
Author: | Otero, Noelia Sillmann, Jana Mar, Kathleen A. Rust, Henning W. Solberg, Sverre Andersson, Camilla Engardt, Magnuz Bessagnet, Bertrand Colette, Augustin Couvidat, Florian Cuvelier, Cournelius Fagerli, Hilde Schaap, Martijn Manders, Astrid Mircea, Mihaela Pay Pérez, María Teresa Thobald, Mark Raffort, Valentin Tsyro, Svetlana Vivanco, Marta Wind, Peter Butler, Tim |
Keywords: | Medi ambient Qualitat de l'aire Natural environment Air quality |
Issue Date: | 24-Aug-2017 |
Publisher: | European Geosciences Union (EGU) |
Abstract: | The implementation of European emission abatement strategies has led to a significant reduction in the emissions of ozone precursors during the last decade. Ground-level ozone is also influenced by meteorological factors such as temperature, which exhibit interannual variability and are expected to change in the future. The impacts of climate change on air quality are usually investigated through air-quality models that simulate interactions between emissions, meteorology and chemistry. Within a multi-model assessment, this study aims to better understand how air-quality models represent the relationship between meteorological variables and surface ozone concentrations over Europe. A multiple linear regression (MLR) approach is applied to observed and modelled time series across 10 European regions in springtime and summertime for the period of 2000-2010 for both models and observations. Overall, the air-quality models are in better agreement with observations in summertime than in springtime and particularly in certain regions, such as France, central Europe or eastern Europe, where local meteorological variables show a strong influence on surface ozone concentrations. Larger discrepancies are found for the southern regions, such as the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean basin, especially in springtime. We show that the air-quality models do not properly reproduce the sensitivity of surface ozone to some of the main meteorological drivers, such as maximum temperature, relative humidity and surface solar radiation. Specifically, all air-quality models show more limitations in capturing the strength of the ozone-relative-humidity relationship detected in the observed time series in most of the regions, for both seasons. Here, we speculate that dry-deposition schemes in the air-quality models might play an essential role in capturing this relationship. We further quantify the relationship between ozone and maximum temperature (mo3−T, climate penalty) in observations and air-quality models. In summertime, most of the air-quality models are able to reproduce the observed climate penalty reasonably well in certain regions such as France, central Europe and northern Italy. However, larger discrepancies are found in springtime, where air-quality models tend to overestimate the magnitude of the observed climate penalty. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12269-2018 |
It is part of: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017, vol. 18, num. 16, p. 12269-12288 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/197281 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12269-2018 |
ISSN: | 1680-7316 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) |
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