WRF-Chem simulations in the Amazon region during wet and dry season transitions: Evaluation of methane models and wetland inundation maps

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 7961-7982

  Beck, V ^a   Gerbig, C ^a   Koch, T ^a   Bela, M M ^b,f   Longo, K M ^b   Freitas, S R ^b   Kaplan, J O ^c   Prigent, C ^d   Bergamaschi, P ^e   Heimann, M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMAZON BASIN;

ISOPTERA;

EID: 84882653394     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-7961-2013     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Ahmadov, R., Gerbig, C., Kretschmer, R., Koerner, S., Neininger, B., Dolmann, A. J., and Sarat, C.: Mesoscale covariance of transport and CO2 fluxes: Evidence from observations and simulations using the WRF-VPRM coupled atmosphere-biosphere model, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D22107, doi:10.1029/ 2007JD008552, 2007.
2. Ahmadov, R., Gerbig, C., Kretschmer, R., Körner, S., Rödenbeck, C., Bousquet, P., and Ramonet, M.: Comparing high resolution WRF-VPRM simulations and two global CO2 transport models with coastal tower measurements of CO2, Biogeosciences, 6, 807-817, doi:10.5194/bg-6-807-2009, 2009.
3. Alonso, M. F., Longo, K. M., Freitas, S. R., da Fonseca, R. M., Marécal, V., Pirre, M., and Klenner, L. C.: An urban emission inventory for South America and its application in numerical modeling of atmospheric chemical composition at local and regional scales, Atmos. Environ., 44, 5072-5083, 2010.
4. Andreae, M. O., Artaxo, P., Beck, V., Bela, M., Freitas, S., Gerbig, C., Longo, K., Munger, J. W., Wiedemann, K. T., and Wofsy, S. C.: Carbon monoxide and related trace gases and aerosols over the Amazon Basin during the wet and dry seasons, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 6041-6065, doi:10.5194/acp-12-6041-2012, 2012.
5. Bartlett, K. B., Crill, P. M., Sebacher, D. I., Harriss, R. C., Wilson, J. O., and Melack, J. M.: Methane Flux From the Central Amazonian Floodplain, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 1571-1582, 1988.
6. Bartlett, K. B., Crill, P. M., Bonassi, J. A., Richey, J. E., and Harriss, R. C.: Methane Flux From the Amazon River Floodplain: Emission During Rising Water, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 773-788, 1990.
7. Beck, V.: Determination of methane budget of the Amazon region utilising airborne methane observations in combination with atmospheric transport and vegetation modelling, Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 226 pp., 2012.
8. Beck, V., Koch, T., Kretschmer, R., Marshall, J., Ahmadov, R., Gerbig, C., Pillai, D., and Heimann, M.: The WRF Greenhouse Gas Model (WRF-GHG), Technical Report No. 25, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, available online at: http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgc-systems/index. shtml, 2011.
9. Beck, V., Chen, H., Gerbig, C., Bergamaschi, P., Bruhwiler, L., Houweling, S., Röckmann, T., Kolle, O., Steinbach, J., Koch, T., Sapart, C., Van der Veen, C., Frankenberg, C., Andreae, M. O., Artaxo, P., Longo, K. M., and Wofsy, S. C.: Methane airborne measurements and comparison to global models during BARCA, J. Geophys. Res., 117, doi:10.1029/2011JD017345, 2012.
10. Belward, A.: The IGBP-DIS global 1 km land cover data set (DISCover)-proposal and implementation plans, IGBP-DIS Working Paper No. 13, Toulouse, France, 1996.
11. Bergamaschi, P., Frankenberg, C., Meirink, J. F., Krol, M., Dentener, F., Wagner, T., Platt, U., Kaplan, J. O., Körner, S., Heimann, M., Dlugokencky, E. J., and Goede, A.: Satellite chartography of atmospheric methane from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT: 2. Evaluation based on inverse model simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 11, D02304, doi:10.1029/2006JD007268, 2007.
12. Bergamaschi, P., Krol, M., Meirink, J. F., Dentener, F., Segers, A., van Aardenne, J., Monni, S., Vermeulen, A., Schmidt, M., Ramonet, M., Yver, C., Meinhardt, F., Nisbet, E. G., Fischer, R., O'Doherty, S., and Dlugokencky, E. J.: Inverse modeling of European CH4 emissions 2001-2006, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2010.
13. Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., Miller, J. B., Dlugokencky, E. J., Hauglustaine, D. A., Prigent, C., Van der Werf, G. R., Peylin, P., Brunke, E.-G., Carouge, C., Langenfelds, R. L., Lathière, J., Pap, F., Ramonet, M., Schmidt, M., Steele, L. P., Tyler, S. C., and White, J.: Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability, Nature, 443, 439-443, 2006.
14. Bustamante, M. M. C., Keller, M., and Silva, D. A.: Sources and Sinks of Trace Gases in Amazonia and the Cerrado, in Amazonia and Global Change edited by: Keller, M., Geophys. Monogr. Ser., 186, AGU, 10.1029/2008GM000847, 2010.
15. Chen, H., Winderlich, J., Gerbig, C., Hoefer, A., Rella, C. W., Crosson, E. R., Van Pelt, A. D., Steinbach, J., Kolle, O., Beck, V., Daube, B. C., Gottlieb, E. W., Chow, V. Y., Santoni, G. W., and Wofsy, S. C.: High-accuracy continuous airborne measurements of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) using the cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS) technique, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 375-386, doi:10.5194/amt-3-375-2010, 2010.
16. Chen, Y.-H. and Prinn, R. G.: Estimation of atmospheric methane emissions between 1996 and 2001 using a threedimensional global chemical transport model, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D10307, doi:10.1029/2005JD006058, 2006.
17. Christensen, T., Prentice, I. C., Kaplan, J., Haxeltine, A., and Sitch, S.: Methane flux from northern wetlands and tundra, Tellus, 48B, 652-661, 1996.
18. Crevoisier, C., Nobileau, D., Fiore, A. M., Armante, R., Chédin, A., and Scott, N. A.: Tropospheric methane in the tropics-first year from IASI hyperspectral infrared observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6337-6350, doi:10.5194/acp-9-6337-2009, 2009.
19. Crill, P. M., Bartlett, K. B.,Wilson, J. O., Sebacher, D. I., Harriss, R. C., Melack, J. M., MacIntyre, S., Lesack, L., and Smith-Morrill, L.: Tropospheric Methane from an Amazonian Foodplain Lake, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 1564-1570, 1988.
20. Deutscher, N. M., Griffith, D. W. T., Paton-Walsh, C., and Borah, R.: Train-borne measurements of tropical methane enhancements from ephemeral wetlands in Australia, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D15304, doi:10.1029/2009JD013151, 2010.
21. Devol, A. H., Richey, J. E., Forsberg, B. R., Martinelli, L. A.: Seasonal Dynamics in Methane Emissions from the Amazon River Floodplain to the Troposphere, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 417-426, 1990.
22. Drevet, J.: Modeling Study of thr Interannual Variability in Global Tropospheric Hydroxyl Radical and Methane Concentrations Over the Last Two Decades, Dissertation, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2008.
23. Edwards, M. O.: Global gridded elevation and bathymetry (ETOPO5), Digital raster data on a 5-minute geographic (lat/lon) 2160 4320 (centroid-registered) grid, NOAA Natl. Geophys. Data Cent., Boulder, CO, USA, 1989.
24. Frankenberg, C., Meirink, J. F., Bergamaschi, P., Goede, A. P. H., Heimann, M., Körner, S., Platt, U., van der Weele, M., and Wagner, T.: Satellite chartography of atmospheric methane from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT: Analysis of the years 2003 and 2004, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D07303, doi:10.1029/2005JD006235, 2006.
25. Frankenberg, C., Bergamaschi, P., Butz, A., Houweling, S., Meirink, J. F., Notholt, J., Petersen, A. K., Schrijver, H., Warneke, T., and Aben, I.: Tropical methane emissions: A revised view from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15811, doi:10.1029/2008GL034300, 2008.
26. Frankenberg, C., Aben, I., Bergamaschi, P., Dlugokenchy, E. J., van Hees, R., Houweling, S., van der Meer, P., Snel, R., and Tol, P.: Global column-averaged methane mixing ratios from 2003 to 2009 as derived from SCIAMACHY: Trends and variability, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D04302, doi:10.1029/2010JD014849, 2011.
27. Freitas, S. R., Longo, K. M., and Andreae, M. O.: Impact of including the plume rise of vegetation fires in numerical simulations of associated atmospheric pollutants, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17808, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026608, 2006.
28. Freitas, S. R., Longo, K. M., Silva Dias, M. A. F., Chatfield, R., Silva Dias, P., Artaxo, P., Andreae, M. O., Grell, G., Rodrigues, L. F., Fazenda, A., and Panetta, J.: The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS)-Part 1: Model description and evaluation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 2843-2861, doi:10.5194/acp-9-2843-2009, 2009.
29. Freitas, S. R., Longo, K. M., Alonso, M. F., Pirre, M., Marecal, V., Grell, G., Stockler, R., Mello, R. F., and Sánchez Gácita, M.: PREP-CHEM-SRC-1.0: a preprocessor of trace gas and aerosol emission fields for regional and global atmospheric chemistry models, Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 419-433, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-419-2011, 2011.
30. Gevaerd, R. and Freitas, S. R.: Estimativa operacional da umidade do solo para iniciac ao de modelos de previsao numérica da atmosfera. Parte I: Descric ao da metodologia e validac ao, Rev. Brasil. Meteorol., 21, 1-15, 2006.
31. Grell, G., Peckham, S. E., Schmitz, R., McKeen, S. A., Frost, G., Skamarock, W. C., and Eder, B.: Fully coupled "online" chemistry within the WRF model, Atmos. Environ., 39, 6957-6975, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv. 2005.6904.6027, 2005.
32. Grell, G., Freitas, S. R., Stuefer, M., and Fast, J.: Inclusion of biomass burning in WRF-Chem: impact of wildfires on weather forecasts, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5289-5303, doi:10.5194/acp-11-5289-2011, 2011.
33. Hess, L. L., Melack, J. M., Novo, E. M. L. M., Barbosa, C. C. F., and Gastil, M.: Dual-season mapping of wetland inundation and vegetation for the central Amazon basin, Remote Sens. Environ., 87, 404-428, 2003.
34. Hess, L. L., Affonso, A. A., Barbosa, C., Gastil-Buhl, M., Melack, J. M., and Novo, E. M. L. M.: LBA-ECO LC-07 Basinwide Amazon Wetlands 100m Mask based on JERS SAR Images (v.Apr08), data set, available online at: http://lba.cptec.inpe.br/ from LBA Data and Information System (last access: May 2012), National Institute for Space Research (INPE/CPTEC), Cachoeira Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009.
35. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis-Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, USA, 2007.
36. Kaplan, J. O.: Wetlands at the Last Glacial Maximum: Distribution and methane emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1079, doi:10.1029/2001GL013366, 2002.
37. Kaplan, J. O., Folberth, G., and Hauglustaine, D. A.: Role of methane and biogenic volatile organic compound sources in late glacial and Holocene fluctuations of atmospheric methane concentrations, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 20, GB2016, doi:10.1029/2005GB002590, 2006.
38. Kort, E. A., Eluszkiewicz, J., Stephens, B. B., Miller, J. B., Gerbig, C., Nehrkorn, T., Daube, B. C., Kaplan, J. O., Houweling, S., and Wofsy, S. C.: Emissions of CH4 and N2O over the United States and Canada based on a receptor-oriented modeling framework and COBRA-NA atmospheric observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L18808, doi:10.1029/2008GL034031, 2008.
39. Knorr,W.: Satellite remote sensing and modelling of the global CO2 exchange of land vegetation: A sythesis study, dissertation, Max-Planck-Inst. für Meteorol., Hamburg, Germany, 1997.
40. Lin, J., Gerbig, C., Wofsy, S. C., Andrews, A. E., Daube, B. C., Davis, K. J., and Grainger, C. A.: A near-field tool for simulating the upstream influence of atmospheric observations: The Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagragian Transport (STILT) model, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4493, doi:10.1029/2002JD003161, 2003.
41. Longo, K. M., Freitas, S. R., Andreae, M. O., Setzer, A., Prins, E., and Artaxo, P.: The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS)-Part 2: Model sensitivity to the biomass burning inventories, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 5785-5795, doi:10.5194/acp-10-5785-2010, 2010.
42. Mahadevan, P., Wofsy, S. C., Matross, D. M., Xiao, X., Dunn, A. L., Lin, J. C., Gerbig, C., Munger, J. W., Chow, V. Y., and Gottlieb, E. W.: A satellite-based biosphere parameterization for net ecosystem CO2 exchange: Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (VPRM), Global Biogeochem. Cy., 22, GB2005, doi:10.1029/2006GB002735, 2008.
43. Melack, J. M., Hess, L. L., Gastil, M., Forsberg, B. R., Hamilton, S. K., Lima, I. B. T., and Novo, E.: Regionalization of methane emissions in the Amazon basin with microwave remote sensing, Global Change Biol., 10, 530-544, 2004.
44. Miller, J. B., Gatti, L. V., d'Amelio, M. T. S., Crotwell, A. M., Dlugokencky, E. J., Bakwin, P., Artaxo, P., and Tans, P. P.: Airborne measurements indicate large methane emissions from the eastern Amazon basin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L10809, doi:10.1029/2006GL029213, 2007.
45. Olivier, J. G. J., Bouwman, A. F., Van der Maas, C. W. M., Berdowski, J. J. M., Veldt, C., Bloos, J. P. J., Visschedijk, A. J. H., Zandveld, P. Y. J., and Haverlag, J. L.: Description of EDGAR Version 2.0: a set of global emission inventories of greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances for all anthropogenic and most natural sources on a per country basis and on 18 18 grid. RIVMTechnical Report No. 771060 002; TNO-MEP Report No. R96/119. National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven/Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Apeldoorn, 1996.
46. Olivier, J. G. J., Bouwman, A. F., Berdowski, J. J. M., Veldt, C., Bloss, J. P. J., Visschedijj, A. H. J., van de Maas, C. W. M., and Zandweld, P. Y. J.: Sectoral emission inventories of greenhouse gases for 1990 on per country basis as well as 10?10, Environ. Sci. Policy, 2, 241-264, 1999.
47. Petersen, A. K., Warneke, T., Frankenberg, C., Bergamaschi, P., Gerbig, C., Notholt, J., Buchwitz, M., Schneising, O., and Schrems, O.: First ground-based FTIR observations of methane in the inner tropics over several years, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 7231-7239, doi:10.5194/acp-10-7231-2010, 2010.
48. Pickett-Heaps, C. A., Jacob, D. J., Wecht, K. J., Kort, E. A., Wofsy, S. C., Diskin, G. S., Worthy, D. E. J., Kaplan, J. O., Bey, I., and Drevet, J.: Magnitude and seasonality of wetland methane emissions from the Hudson Bay Lowlands (Canada), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 3773-3779, doi:10.5194/acp-11-3773- 2011, 2011.
49. Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., Marshall, J., Ahmadov, R., Kretschmer, R., Koch, T., and Karstens, U.: High resolution modeling of CO2 over Europe: implications for representation errors of satellite retrievals, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 83-94, doi:10.5194/acp-10-83-2010, 2010.
50. Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., Ahmadov, R., Rödenbeck, C., Kretschmer, R., Koch, T., Thompson, R., Neininger, B., and Lavrié, J. V.: High-resolution simulations of atmospheric CO2 over complex terrain-representing the Ochsenkopf mountain tall tower, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 7445-7464, doi:10.5194/acp-11- 7445-2011, 2011.
51. Prigent, C., Matthews, E., Aires, F., and Rossow, W. B.: Remote sensing of global wetland dynamics with multiple satellite data sets, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4631-4634, 2001.
52. Prigent, C., Papa, F., Aires, F., Rossow, W. B., and Matthews, E.: Global inundation dynamics inferred from multiple satellite observations, 1993-2000, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12107, doi:10.1029/2006JD007847, 2007.
53. Prigent, C., Papa, F., Aires, F., Jiminez, C., Rossow, W. B., and Matthews, E.: Changes in land surface water dynamics since the 1990s and relation to population pressure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L08403, doi:10.1029/2012GL051276, 2012.
54. Prins, E. M., Feltz, J. M., Menzel, W. P., and Ward, D. E.: An overview of GOES-8 diurnal fire and smoke results for SCAR-B and 1995 fire season in South America, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31821-31835, 1998.
55. Ridgwell, A. J., Marshall, S. J., and Gregson, K.: Consumption of atmospheric methane by soils: A process-based model, Global Biochem. Cy., 13, 59-70, 1999.
56. Sanderson, M. G.: Biomass of termites and their emissions of methane and carbon dioxode: A global database, Global Biochem. Cy., 10, 543-557, 1996.
57. Schlesinger, W. H.: Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA, 1997.
58. Sestini, M., Reimer, E., Valeriano, D., Alvalá, R., Mello, E., Chan, C., and Nobre, C.: Mapa de cobertura da terra da Amazonia legal para uso em modelos meteorológicos, Anais XI Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, 2901-2906, 2003.
59. Sitch, S., Smith, B., Prentice, I. C., Arneth, A., Bondeau, A., Cramer, W., Kaplan, J. O., Levis, S., Lucht, W., Sykes, M. T., Thonicke, K., and Venevsky, S.: Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model, Global Change Biol., 9, 161-185, 2003.
60. Taylor, K. E.: Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagram, J. Geophys. Res., 116, 7183-7192, 2001.
61. Vermeulen, A. T., Eismaa, R., Hensen, A., and Slanina, J.: Transport model calculations of NW-European methane emissions, Environ. Sci. Policy, 2, 315-324, 1999.
62. Walter, B. P., Heimann, M., Shannon, R. D., and White, J. R.: A process-based model to derive methane emissions from natural wetlands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3731-3734, 1996.
63. Walter, B. P. and Heimann, M.: A process-based, climate-sensitive model to derive methane emissions from natural wetlands: Application to five wetland sites, sensitivity to model parameters, and climate, Global Biochem. Cy., 14, 745-765, 2000.
64. Walter, B. P., Heimann, M., and Matthews, E.: Modeling modern methane emissions from natural wetlands 1. Model description and results, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 34189-34206, 2001a.
65. Walter, B. P., Heimann, M., and Matthews, E.: Modeling modern methane emissions from natural wetlands 2. Interannual variations 1982-1993, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 34207-34219, 2001b.
66. Wuebbles, D. J. and Hayhoe, K.: Atmospheric methane and global change, Earth-Science Reviews, 57, 177-210, 2002.
67. Zhao, C., Andrews, A. E., Bianco, L., Eluszkiewicz, J., Hirsch, A., MacDonald, C., Nehrkorn, T., and Fischer, M. L.: Atmospheric inverse estimates of methane emissions from Central California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D16302, doi:10.1029/2008JD011671, 2009.