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Application of Atmospheric Chemical Transport Models to Validation of Pollutant Emissions in Moscow

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Data of multiyear observations from Mosecomonitoring network stations were used to calculate the CO, NO, NO2, SO2, and PM10 emissions from urban sources, their spatial distribution, and time variations. The emission matrix thus obtained was used in the SILAM chemical transport model to estimate the air quality in the Moscow megacity. The comparisons of the calculations with the observations, performed by applying correlation relations and Student’s test, were used to correct the emission matrix. To optimize the spatial distribution of sources and the magnitude of emissions in the Moscow megacity, air pollutant fields for the summer and winter months were calculated applying chemical transport models SILAM and COSMO-ART using emissions both calculated and available from the TNO emission inventory database. Comparison of these calculations made it possible to reduce the uncertainties of estimating the air quality in the Moscow region.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank R. Kuznetsov and M. Sofiev for providing the original code of SILAM model, data on the boundary and initial conditions, as well as for valuable advice and assistance in conducting numerical experiments; we also acknowledge the support from B. Vogel, H. Vogel, and their colleagues from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) for useful suggestions and valuable guidance on using the ART module, H.D. van der Gon and his colleagues from Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) for providing emission data, and D. Brunner from Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), who converted these annual data to hourly data on the COSMO-ART grid. We also thank MEM staff for providing the great number of observations without which this work could hardly be possible.

Funding

This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 16-17-10 275) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-00352). The procedures for analyzing the data quality were developed under the support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-35-05102).

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  1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    N. A. Ponomarev, N. F. Elansky, O. V. Postylyakov & A. N. Borovski

  2. Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, 123242, Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Kirsanov

  3. Dalhousie University 6310, B3H 4R2, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Y. M. Verevkin

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Ponomarev, N.A., Elansky, N.F., Kirsanov, A.A. et al. Application of Atmospheric Chemical Transport Models to Validation of Pollutant Emissions in Moscow. Atmos Ocean Opt 33, 362–371 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856020040090

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