intercomparisonof chemical multiphase box models
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Intercomparison ofChemicalMultiphaseBoxModelsMaryCBarth1,BarbaraErvens2,Hartmut Herrmann3,AndreasTilgner3,VFayeMcNeill4,AnnMarieCarlton5,SaraLance6,MauroMorichetti7,LaurentDeguillaume8,andNadineChaumerliac8
1NationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch,Boulder,CO,UnitedStates,2CooperativeInstituteforResearchinEnvironmentalSciences,Boulder,CO,UnitedStates,3LeibnizInstituteforTroposphericResearch,Leipzig,Germany,4ColumbiaUniversityofNewYork,Palisades,NY,UnitedStates,5UniversityofCaliforniaIrvine,Irvine,CA,UnitedStates,6UniversityatAlbanyStateUniversityofNewYork,ASRC,Albany,NY,UnitedStates,7UniversityofPolytechnicofMarche,Ancona,Italy,8LaboratoiredeMétéorologie Physique(LaMP),Clermont-Ferrand,France
Goal:EvaluateCurrentStateofKnowledgeinMultiphaseChemistryBoxModels
• FivegroupsareconductingsimulationsinthecontextoftheSeptember17-19WhitefaceMountainCloudEvent
• Gas-phasechemistryhassomevariationamongmodelsduringdaytimethatmustbeaccountedforininterpretationofcloudchemistryresults
• Cloudchemistryresultsshowwiderangeofanswers,especiallyfororganicacidformation
• MorevariabilityfoundwithvaryingpHsimulation• Understandingthesedifferencesiscurrentlyunderway
https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/cloud-chemistry
Gaschemistry Aqueouschemistry Gas-liquidtransfer Reference
TROPOS(Tilgner,Herrmann)
MCMv3.213,927reactions
CAPRAM4.0a7129reactions 275species Tilgner etal.(2013,J.
Atmos.Chem.)
Deguillaume MCMv3.3.12043reactions
CLEPS850reactions 591species Mouchel-Vallon etal.
(2017,GMD)
McNeill
Isoprene,aromatics,andC1-C3 photochemistry
165reactions
GAMMA239reactions 35species McNeilletal.(2012,
ES&T)
BarthSimilartoMOZART4
168reactions45reactions 45species Lietal. (2017,JGR)
Ervens SimilartoBarth’s168reactions
Ervens58reactions 22species Ervens etal.(2014,
JGR;2008,GRL)
SampleofBoxModelResults
• Location:WhitefaceMountain:z=1.5kmMSL,44.4N,73.9W
• Start/Endtimes:17:30LT17Sept./15:00LT18Sept.
• 30minutesclearsky,20hourscloud,30minutesclearsky
• Simulation1:ClearSkyOnly
• Simulation2:CloudWater=0.78g/kg,pH=4.5
• Simulation3:CloudWater=0.78g/kg,pHvariesascalculatedbymodel
ModelConfiguration ConclusionsEffectsofCloudsonTroposphericComposition
• Acidrainstudiesfromthe1980sand1990sidentifiedimportanceofaqueous-phasechemistryinproducingsulfate
• Cloudsaffectozoneviaaqueouschemistry,scatteringofradiation,andlightning-NOx production
• Cloudchemistrycanproducemoresecondaryorganicaerosols
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• Three-dimensionalchemistrytransportmodelsoftendonotincludeaqueous-phasechemistryduetolackofcompleteunderstandingofthechemistryandthecomputationalburden
• Goal:Evaluatethecurrentstateofknowledgeinmultiphasechemistryboxmodels
Background
• Intercomparison isbeingconductedinthecontextoftheWhitefaceMountainCloudChemistryStudy
• Cloudeventof17-19September2016isbeinganalyzedforitscompositionbyseveralgroups
• Inthisstudywemodelthefirst20hoursofthecloudeventusingmeteorologicalconditionsatWhitefaceMountain
Cloudsassociatedwithwarmfrontandwarmsectorstorms/clouds
SurfaceWeatherMap1230UTC17Sept0830LT
WFM
Cloudswerestratiform innature
• InitialconcentrationsarefromaWRF-Chem simulationof16-19September2016continentalUnitedStates
• PhotolysisratesfromTUVv5.3forWFMinSeptember,forclearskywithsomeaerosols
• CCNcomposedofSO4,NH4,OrganicCarbon
• Clouddropssetto10µmradius
MeteorologyoftheCaseSimulated
AirfromOhioRiverValley
Variationinclear-skyresultsneedstobeaccountedforininterpretingmultiphaseresults
Gas-phaseOxidants
OHhasfactorof2-3variation HO2 hasfactorof~2variation
H2O2 hasfactorof1-2variation
O3 rangesfrom39-44ppbv
• Gas-phaseHCOOHproductionis50-70pptvinthreemodels;itdoesnotoccurintheMOZART4gas-phasemechanism
• CH3COOHproductionis~100pptv forallmechanismsexceptMcNeillwhopredictlargerproductionofCH3COOHingasphase
Gas-phaseOrganicAcids
Simulation1:ClearSkyOnly
ThankstoWilliamGangTsui forhiscontributiontoMcNeill’ssimulations.ThankstoNCAR/ACOMforsupportingcloudchemistrymodelingintercomparison meeting.NCARissupportedbytheNationalScienceFoundation.
Gas-phaseOxidants
OHhasfactorof10variationHO2 hasfactorof~5variation
H2O2 agreeswellexceptforaftercloudevent
O3 rangesfrom35-43ppbv
Variationincloudyresultsisgreaterthanthatfoundinclear-skycase
Gas-phaseOrganicAcids Aqueous-phaseOrganicAcids
Aqueous-phaseOxidants
• Widevarietyofanswersamonggroupsastohowmuchorganicacidsareproduced,althoughmostgroupsagreeonCH3COOHproduction
• Timeseriesoftotalorganicacid(sumofallorganicacids)willprovideinsightofpartitioningamongacidsorsimplydifferentoxidationrates
Simulation2:SetLWC=0.78g/kg,SetpH=4.5
cloud cloud
Variationincreasesduringdaylighthours
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cloudcloud
cloudcloud
Aqueous-phaseOxidants
Aqueous-phaseOrganicAcids
Modelresultsvaryby1-5ordersofmagnitude
Simulation3:SetLWC=0.78g/kg,pHVaries
pHvaluesrangebetween4and4.8
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