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Anthropogenic emissions from industrial activity, fossil fuel combustion, and biomass burning are now known to be large enough, relative to natural sources, to perturb the chemistry of vast regions of the troposphere. A goal of the IGAC Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) is to provide authoritative and reliable emissions inventories on a 1° x 1° grid. When combined with atmospheric photochemical models, these high quality emissions inventories may be used to predict the concentrations of major photochemical products. Then, comparison of model results with measurements of pertinent species will allow us to assess whether there are major shortcomings in our understanding of tropospheric photochemistry, the budgets and transport of trace species, and their effects in the atmosphere. Through this activity, we are building the capability to make confident predictions of the future consequences of anthropogenic emissions. This paper compares IGAC recommended emissions inventories for reactive nitrogen and sulfur dioxide to those that have been in use previously. We also present results from the three-dimensional LLNL atmospheric chemistry model that show how emissions of anthropogenic nitrogen oxides might potentially affect tropospheric ozone and OH concentrations, and how emissions of anthropogenic sulfur increase sulfate aerosol loadings.
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Penner, J.E., Atherton, C.S., Graedel, T.E. (1994). Global Emissions and Models of Photochemically Active Compounds. In: Prinn, R.G. (eds) Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry. Environmental Science Research, vol 48. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2524-0_13
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