Uplifting of asian continental pollution plumes from the boundary layer to the free atmosphere over the northwestern pacific rim in spring

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-44

  Li, Jie ^a   Wang, Zifa ^a   Yamaji, Kazuyo ^b   Takigawa, Masayuki ^b   Kanaya, Yugo ^b   Taketani, Fumikazu ^b   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^c   Pan, Xiaole ^b   Hu, Min ^d   Meng, Fan ^e   Sun, Yele ^a   Yang, Ting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876998783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2013-010     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Byun, D. W., and R. Dennis, 1995: Design Artifacts in Eulerian Air-Quality Models -Evaluation of the Effects of Layer Thickness and Vertical Profile Correction on Surface Ozone Concentrations. Atmos. Environ., 29, 105-126.
2. Emanuel, K. A., 1991: A Scheme for Representing Cumulus Convection in Large-Scale Models. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 2313-2335.
3. Carmichael, G. R., and co-authors, 2003: Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 108(D21), doi:10.1029/2002JD003117.
4. Cooper, O. R., and co-authors, 2004: A case study of transpacific warm conveyor belt transport: Influence of merging airstreams on trace gas import to North America. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 109, D23S08, doi:10.1029/2003JD003624.
5. Dunlea, E. J., and co-authors, 2009: Evolution of Asian aerosols during transpacific transport in INTEX-B. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 7257-7287.
6. Emmons, L. K., and co-authors, 2010: Description and evaluation of the Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers, version 4 (MOZART-4). Geosci. Model. Dev., 3, 43-67.
7. Guenther, A., and co-authors, 1995: A Global-Model of Natural Volatile Organic-Compound Emissions. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 100(D5), 8873-8892, doi:10.1029/94JD02950.
8. Holzer, M., T. M. Hall, and R. B. Stull, 2005: Seasonality and weatherdriven variability of transpacific transport. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 110, D23103, doi:10.1029/2005JD006261.
9. Kanaya, Y., and co-authors, 2010: PM2.5 mass concentrations observed at Fukue Island, Kyushu, Japan: Exceeding the atmospheric environmental standard. J. Japan Soc. Atmos. Environ./Taiki Kankyo Gakkaishi, 45, 289-292.
10. Li, J., and co-authors, 2007: Modeling study of ozone seasonal cycle in lower troposphere over east Asia. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 112, D22S25, doi:10.1029/2006JD008209.
11. Li, J., and co-authors, 2008: Near-ground ozone source attributions and outflow in central eastern China during MTX2006. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 7335-7351.
12. Li, J., and co-authors, 2011: Impacts of aerosols on summertime tropospheric photolysis frequencies and photochemistry over Central Eastern China. Atmos. Environ., 45, 1817-1829.
13. Liang, Q., and co-authors, 2004: Long-range transport of Asian pollution to the northeast Pacific: Seasonal variations and transport pathways of carbon monoxide. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 109, D23S07, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004402.
14. Lin, M., T. Holloway, G. R. Carmichael, and A. M. Fiore, 2010: Quantifying pollution inflow and outflow over East Asia in spring with regional and global models. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4221-4239.
15. Lin, M. Y., and co-authors, 2012: Transport of Asian ozone pollution into surface air over the western United States in spring. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 117, D00V07, doi:10.1029/2011JD016961.
16. Liu, H. Y., and co-authors, 2003: Transport pathways for Asian pollution outflow over the Pacific: Interannual and seasonal variations. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 108(D20), 8786, doi:10.1029/2002JD003102.
17. Luan, Y., and L. Jaeglé, 2012: Composite study of aerosol export events from East Asia and North America. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 12, 21977-22022, doi:10.5194/acpd-12-21977-2012.
18. Sugimoto, N., and co-authors, 2003: Record heavy Asian dust in Beijing in 2002: Observations and model analysis of recent events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1640, doi:10.1029/2002GL016349.
19. Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TFHTAP), 2011: Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution 2010: Part A -Ozone and Particulate Matter. Air Pollut. Stud. 17, U.N.Econ. Comm. Eur., Geneva, Switzerland.
20. Walcek, C. J., and N. M. Aleksic, 1998: A simple but accurate mass conservative, peak-preserving, mixing ratio bounded advection algorithm with Fortran code. Atmos. Environ., 32, 3863-3880.
21. Wang, Y. H., and co-authors, 2006a: Late-spring increase of trans-Pacific pollution transport in the upper troposphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L01811, doi:10.1029/2005GL024975.
22. Wang, Z. F., J. Li, X. Q. Wang, P. Pochanart, and H. Akimoto, 2006b: Modeling of regional high ozone episode observed at two mountain sites (Mt. Tai and Huang) in East China. J. Atmos. Chem., 55, 253-272.
23. Wild, O., and H. Akimoto, 2001: Intercontinental transport of ozone and its precursors in a three-dimensional global CTM. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 106(D21), 27729-27744, doi:10.1029/2000JD000123.
24. Wild, O., and co-authors, 2004: Chemical transport model ozone simulations for spring 2001 over the western Pacific: Regional ozone production and its global impacts. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., 109, D15S02, doi:10.1029/2003JD004041.
25. Wuebbles, D. J., H. Lei, and J. T. Lin, 2007: Intercontinental transport of aerosols and photochemical oxidants from Asia and its consequences. Environ. Pollut., 150, 65-84.
26. Yoshitomi, M., O. Wild, and H. Akimoto, 2011: Contributions of regional and intercontinental transport to surface ozone in the Tokyo area. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 7583-7599.