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Impacts of uncertainty in AVOC emissions on the summer ROx budget and ozone production rate in the three most rapidly-developing economic growth regions of China |
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| Authors: | Feng Wang Junling An Ying Li Yujia Tang Jian Lin Yu Qu Yong Chen Bing Zhang Jing Zhai |
| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China 3. Anhui Meteorological Bureau, Hefei, 230061, China |
| Abstract: | High levels of uncertainty in non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emissions in China could lead to significant variation in the budget of the sum of hydroxyl (OH) and peroxy (HO2, RO2) radicals (RO x = OH + HO2 + RO2) and the ozone production rate P(O3)], but few studies have investigated this possibility, particularly with three-dimensional air quality models. We added diagnostic variables into the WRF-Chem model to assess the impact of the uncertainty in anthropogenic NMVOC (AVOC) emissions on the RO x budget and P(O3) in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta of China. The WRF-Chem simulations were compared with satellite and ground observations, and previous observation-based model studies. Results indicated that 68% increases (decreases) in AVOC emissions produced 4%–280% increases (2%–80% decreases) in the concentrations of OH, HO2, and RO2 in the three regions, and resulted in 35%–48% enhancements (26%–39% reductions) in the primary RO x production and ～ 65% decreases (68%–73% increases) of the P(O3) in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. For the three cities, the two largest contributors to the RO x production rate were the reaction of O1D + H2O and photolysis of HCHO, ALD2, and others; the reaction of OH + NO2 (71%–85%) was the major RO x sink; and the major contributor to P(O3) was the reaction of HO2 + NO (～ 65%). Our results showed that AVOC emissions in 2006 from Zhang et al. (2009) have been underestimated by ～ 68% in suburban areas and by 〉 68% in urban areas, implying that daily and hourly concentrations of secondary organic aerosols and inorganic aerosols could be substantially underestimated, and cloud condensation nuclei could be underestimated, whereas local and regional radiation was overestimated. |
| Keywords: | volatile organic compounds RO_x ozone WRF-Chem model |
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