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HERO ID
3846538
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
A framework for expanding aqueous chemistry in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.1
Author(s)
Fahey, KM; Carlton, AG; Pye, HOT; Baeka, J; Hutzell, WT; Stanier, CO; Baker, KR; Appel, KW; Jaoui, M; Offenberg, JH
Year
2017
Is Peer Reviewed?
1
Journal
Geoscientific Model Development
ISSN:
1991-959X
Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Location
GOTTINGEN
Volume
10
Issue
4
Page Numbers
1587-1605
Language
English
PMID
30147851
DOI
10.5194/gmd-10-1587-2017
Web of Science Id
WOS:000399753700003
Abstract
This paper describes the development and implementation of an extendable aqueous-phase chemistry option (AQCHEM KMT(I)) for the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system, version 5.1. Here, the Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP), version 2.2.3, is used to generate a Rosenbrock solver (Rodas3) to integrate the stiff system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that describe the mass transfer, chemical kinetics, and scavenging processes of CMAQ clouds. CMAQ's standard cloud chemistry module (AQCHEM) is structurally limited to the treatment of a simple chemical mechanism. This work advances our ability to test and implement more sophisticated aqueous chemical mechanisms in CMAQ and further investigate the impacts of microphysical parameters on cloud chemistry.
Box model cloud chemistry simulations were performed to choose efficient solver and tolerance settings, evaluate the implementation of the KPP solver, and assess the direct impacts of alternative solver and kinetic mass transfer on predicted concentrations for a range of scenarios. Month-long CMAQ simulations for winter and summer periods over the US reveal the changes in model predictions due to these cloud module updates within the full chemical transport model. While monthly average CMAQ predictions are not drastically altered be-tween AQCHEM and AQCHEM KMT, hourly concentration differences can be significant. With added in-cloud secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from biogenic epoxides (AQCHEM KMTI), normalized mean error and bias statistics are slightly improved for 2-methyltetrols and 2methylglyceric acid at the Research Triangle Park measurement site in North Carolina during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) period. The added in-cloud chemistry leads to a monthly average increase of 11-18% in " cloud" SOA at the surface in the eastern United States for June 2013.
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