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Regional modeling of carbonaceous aerosols over Europe—focus on secondary organic aerosols

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In this study, an improved and complete secondary organic aerosols (SOA) chemistry scheme was implemented in the CHIMERE model. The implementation of isoprene chemistry for SOA significantly improves agreement between long series of simulated and observed particulate matter concentrations. While simulated organic carbon concentrations are clearly improved at elevated sites by adding the SOA scheme, time correlation are impaired at low level sites in Portugal, Italy and Slovakia. At several sites a clear underestimation by the CHIMERE model is noticed in wintertime possibly due to missing wood burning emissions as shown in previous modeling studies. In Europe, the CHIMERE model gives yearly average SOA concentrations ranging from 0.5 μg m  − 3 in the Northern Europe to 4 μg m  − 3 over forested regions in Spain, France, Germany and Italy. In addition, our work suggests that during the highest fire emission periods, fires can be the dominant source of primary organic carbon over the Mediterranean Basin, but the SOA contribution from fire emissions is low. Isoprene chemistry has a strong impact on SOA formation when using current available kinetic schemes.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the French Ministry in charge of Ecology (MEEDDAT). We thank David Simpson (EMEP, Norway) for providing us the CARBOSOL data, CARBOSOL was financed by European Commission (EVK2-2001-113). Yann Martinet (CITEPA, France) is acknowledged for his contribution in emission speciation. We also thank Alex Guenther (NCAR, USA) for providing us the MEGAN biogenic inventory. G. Curci has been supported by EU/FP6 CIRCE project. We thank METEOCIEL (www.meteociel.com) for providing us the meteorological data.

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  1. INERIS, Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques, Parc technologique ALATA, 60550, Verneuil en Halatte, France

    Bertrand Bessagnet

  2. Institut P.-S. Laplace, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau, France

    Laurent Menut

  3. CETEMPS, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, via Vetoio, 67010, Coppito - L’Aquila, Italy

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  8. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, IPSL/CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Michaël Schulz

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Bessagnet, B., Menut, L., Curci, G. et al. Regional modeling of carbonaceous aerosols over Europe—focus on secondary organic aerosols. J Atmos Chem 61, 175–202 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10874-009-9129-2

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