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@ARTICLE{Mertens:890293,
author = {Mertens, Mariano and Kerkweg, Astrid and Grewe, Volker and
Jöckel, Patrick and Sausen, Robert},
title = {{A}ttributing ozone and its precursors to land transport
emissions in {E}urope and {G}ermany},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {20},
number = {13},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00874},
pages = {7843 - 7873},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Land transport is an important emission source of nitrogen
oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. The
emissions of nitrogen oxides affect air quality directly.
Further, all of these emissions serve as a precursor for the
formation of tropospheric ozone, thus leading to an indirect
influence on air quality. In addition, ozone is radiatively
active and its increase leads to a positive radiative
forcing. Due to the strong non-linearity of the ozone
chemistry, the contribution of emission sources to ozone
cannot be calculated or measured directly. Instead,
atmospheric chemistry models equipped with specific source
attribution methods (e.g. tagging methods) are required. In
this study we investigate the contribution of land transport
emissions to ozone and ozone precursors using the MECO(n)
model system (MESSy-fied ECHAM and COSMO models nested n
times). This model system couples a global and a regional
chemistry climate model and is equipped with a tagging
diagnostic. We investigate the combined effect of
long-range-transported ozone and ozone which is produced by
European emissions by applying the tagging diagnostic
simultaneously and consistently on the global and regional
scale. We performed two simulations each covering 3 years
with different anthropogenic emission inventories for
Europe. We applied two regional refinements, i.e. one
refinement covering Europe (50 km resolution) and one
covering Germany (12 km resolution). The diagnosed
absolute contributions of land transport emissions to
reactive nitrogen (NOy) near ground level are in the range
of 5 to 10 nmol mol−1. This corresponds to relative
contributions of $50 \%$ to $70 \%.$ The largest
absolute contributions appear around Paris, southern
England, Moscow, the Po Valley, and western Germany. The
absolute contributions to carbon monoxide range from
30 nmol mol−1 to more than 75 nmol mol−1 near
emission hot-spots such as Paris or Moscow. The ozone which
is attributed to land transport emissions shows a strong
seasonal cycle with absolute contributions of
3 nmol mol−1 during winter and 5 to
10 nmol mol−1 during summer. This corresponds to
relative contributions of $8 \%$ to $10 \%$ during
winter and up to $16 \%$ during summer. The largest values
during summer are confined to the Po Valley, while the
contributions in western Europe range from $12 \%$ to
$14 \%.$ Only during summer are the ozone contributions
slightly influenced by the anthropogenic emission inventory,
but these differences are smaller than the range of the
seasonal cycle of the contribution to land transport
emissions. This cycle is caused by a complex interplay of
seasonal cycles of other emissions (e.g. biogenic) and
seasonal variations of the ozone regimes. In addition, our
results suggest that during events with large ozone values
the ozone contributions of land transport and biogenic
emissions increase strongly. Here, the contribution of land
transport emissions peaks up to $28 \%.$ Hence, our model
results suggest that land transport emissions are an
important contributor during periods with large ozone
values.},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {243 - Tropospheric trace substances and their
transformation processes (POF3-243)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-243},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000547864400001},
doi = {10.5194/acp-20-7843-2020},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890293},
}