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@ARTICLE{Elbern:6304,
author = {Elbern, H. and Strunk, A. and Schmidt, H. and Talagrand,
O.},
title = {{E}mission rate and chemical state estimation by
4-dimensional variational inversion},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {7},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-6304},
pages = {3749 - 3769},
year = {2007},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {This study aims to assess the potential and limits of an
advanced inversion method to estimate pollutant precursor
sources mainly from observations. Ozone, sulphur dioxide,
and partly nitrogen oxides observations are taken to infer
source strength estimates. As methodology, the
four-dimensional variational data assimilation technique has
been generalised and employed to include emission rate
optimisation, in addition to chemical state estimates as
usual objective of data assimilation. To this end, the
optimisation space of the variational assimilation system
has been complemented by emission rate correction factors of
19 emitted species at each emitting grid point, involving
the University of Cologne mesoscale EURAD model. For
validation, predictive skills were assessed for an August
1997 ozone episode, comparing forecast performances of pure
initial value optimisation, pure emission rate optimisation,
and joint emission rate/initial value
optimisation.Validation procedures rest on both measurements
withheld from data assimilation and prediction skill
evaluation of forecasts after the inversion procedures.
Results show that excellent improvements can be claimed for
sulphur dioxide forecasts, after emission rate optimisation.
Significant improvements can be claimed for ozone forecasts
after initial value and joint emission rate/initial value
optimisation of precursor constituents. The additional
benefits applying joint emission rate/initial value
optimisation are moderate, and very useful in typical cases,
where upwind emission rate optimisation is essential. In
consequence of the coarse horizontal model grid resolution
of 54 km, applied in this study, comparisons indicate that
the inversion improvements can rest on assimilating ozone
observations only, as the inclusion of NOx observations does
not provide additional forecast skill. Emission estimates
were found to be largely independent from initial guesses
from emission inventories, demonstrating the potential of
the 4D-var method to infer emission rate improvements. The
study also points to the need for improved horizontal model
resolution to more efficient use of NOx observations.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-2},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB791},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000248733100005},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/6304},
}