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Modeling wet deposition and concentration of inorganics over Northeast Asia with MRI-PM/c

Kajino

¹ ² Deushi

¹ Maki

¹ Oshima

¹ Inomata

³ Sato

³ Ohizumi

³ Ueda

⁴

Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999 Richland, WA 99352, USA

Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, 1182 Sowa, Nishi, Niigata, 950-2144, Japan

Toyohashi Institute of Technology, 1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tempaku, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan

06 11 2012

5 6 1363 1375

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We conducted a regional-scale simulation over Northeast Asia for the year 2006 using an aerosol chemical transport model, with time-varying lateral and upper boundary concentrations of gaseous species predicted by a global stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry-climate model. The present one-way nested global-through-regional-scale model is named the Meteorological Research Institute–Passive-tracers Model system for atmospheric Chemistry (MRI-PM/c). We evaluated the model's performance with respect to the major anthropogenic and natural inorganic components, SO42−, NH4+, NO3−, Na+ and Ca2+ in the air, rain and snow measured at the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) stations. Statistical analysis showed that approximately 40–50 % and 70–80 % of simulated concentration and wet deposition of SO42−, NH4+, NO3−and Ca2+ are within factors of 2 and 5 of the observations, respectively. The prediction of the sea-salt originated component Na+ was not successful at near-coastal stations (where the distance from the coast ranged from 150 to 700 m), because the model grid resolution (Δx=60 km) is too coarse to resolve it. The simulated Na+ in precipitation was significantly underestimated by up to a factor of 30.

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