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@ARTICLE{Liu:1041560,
author = {Liu, Mingzhao and Hoffmann, Lars and Grooß, Jens-Uwe and
Cai, Zhongyin and Grießbach, Sabine and Heng, Yi},
title = {{T}echnical note: {A} comparative study of chemistry
schemes for volcanic sulfur dioxide in {L}agrangian
transport simulations – a case study of the 2019 {R}aikoke
eruption},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {25},
number = {8},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-02317},
pages = {4403 - 4418},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Lagrangian transport models are important tools to study
the sources, spread, and lifetime of air pollutants. In
order to simulate the transport of reactive atmospheric
pollutants, the implementation of efficient chemistry and
mixing schemes is necessary to properly represent the
lifetime of chemical species. Based on a case study
simulating the long-range transport of volcanic sulfur
dioxide (SO2) for the 2019 Raikoke eruption, this study
compares two chemistry schemes implemented in the
Massive-Parallel Trajectory Calculations (MPTRAC) Lagrangian
transport model. The explicit scheme represents first-order
and pseudo-first-order loss processes of SO2 based on
prescribed reaction rates and climatological oxidant fields,
i.e., the hydroxyl radical in the gas phase and hydrogen
peroxide in the aqueous phase. Furthermore, an implicit
scheme with a reduced chemistry mechanism for volcanic SO2
decomposition has been implemented, targeting the
upper-troposphere–lower-stratosphere (UT–LS) region.
Considering nonlinear effects of the volcanic SO2 chemistry
in the UT–LS region, we found that the implicit solution
yields a better representation of the volcanic SO2 lifetime,
while the first-order explicit solution has better
computational efficiency. By analyzing the dependence
between the oxidants and SO2 concentrations, correction
formulas are derived to adjust the oxidant fields used in
the explicit solution, leading to a good trade-off between
computational efficiency and accuracy. We consider this work
to be an important step forward to support future research
on emission source reconstruction involving nonlinear
chemical processes.},
cin = {JSC / ICE-4 / CASA},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)ICE-4-20101013 /
I:(DE-Juel1)CASA-20230315},
pnm = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
(SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511) / 2112 - Climate
Feedbacks (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001472736600001},
doi = {10.5194/acp-25-4403-2025},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1041560},
}