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Topic Name: Optimal Estimation of the Surface Fluxes of Chloromethanes Using a 3-D Global Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model
Category: Chemical
Research persons: Xiao, X.,Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Location: Cambridge, United States
Details
The four chloromethanes - methyl chloride (CH3Cl), dichloromethane (CH2Cl2),
chloroform (CHCl3), and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), are chlorine-containing
gases contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion and having
adverse health effects.
Large uncertainties in estimates of their source and sink magnitudes and
temporal and spatial variations currently exist. GEIA inventories and other
bottom-up emission estimates are used to construct a priori maps of surface
fluxes of these species. The Model of Atmospheric Transport and CHemistry
(MATCH), driven by NCEP interannually varying meteorological fields, is then
used to simulate the trace gas mole fractions using the a priori emissions and
to quantify the time series of sensitivities of tracer concentrations to
different aseasonal, seasonal, and regional sources and sinks.
We implement the Kalman filter (with the unit pulse response method) to estimate
both constant (if applicable) and time-varying surface fluxes on regional/global
scales at a monthly resolution for the three short-lived species between
2000-2004, and the continental industrial emissions and global oceanic sink for
CCl4 at a 3-month resolution between 1996-2004. The high frequency observations
from AGAGE, SOGE, NIES and NOAA/GMD HATS and other low frequency flask
observations are used to constrain the source and sink magnitudes estimated as
multiplying factors for the a priori fluxes and contained in the state vector in
the Kalman filter.
The CH3Cl inversion results indicate large CH3Cl emissions of 2240 ± 370 Gg
yr-1 from tropical plants. The inversion implies greater seasonal
oscillations of the natural sources and sink of CH3Cl compared to the a priori.
Seasonal cycles have been derived for both the oceanic (for CHCl3 and CH2Cl2)
and terrestrial (for CHCl3) sources, with summer maxima and winter minima
emissions. Our inversion results show significant industrial sources of CH2Cl2
and CCl4 from the Southeast Asian region. Our inversions also exhibit the strong
effects of the 2002/2003 globally wide-spread heat and drought conditions on the
emissions of CH3Cl from tropical plants and global salt marshes, on the soil
fluxes of CH3Cl and CHCl3, on the biomass burning sources of CH3Cl and CH2Cl2,
and on the derived oceanic flux of CHCl3.
| Tags: |
chloromethanes - methyl chloride - dichloromethane - chloroform - carbon tetrachloride - chlorine-containing
gases - 3-D Global Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model - Optimal Estimation of the Surface - |
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