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Model evaluation paper
| 
21 Oct 2019
Model evaluation paper |
| 21 Oct 2019
| 21 Oct 2019
Simulating lightning NO production in CMAQv5.2: performance evaluations
Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Kristen M. Foley
Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Rohit Mathur
Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Shawn J. Roselle
Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Kenneth E. Pickering
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Dale J. Allen
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Impact of Lightning NOx Emissions on Atmospheric Composition and Meteorology in Africa and Europe L. Menut et al. 10.3390/atmos11101128
- Utility of Geostationary Lightning Mapper-derived lightning NO emission estimates in air quality modeling studies P. Cheng et al. 10.5194/acp-24-41-2024
- Refined source apportionment of nitrate aerosols based on isotopes and emission inventories in coastal city of northern China Y. Ni et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177388
- Volatile Chemical Product Enhancements to Criteria Pollutants in the United States K. Seltzer et al. 10.1021/acs.est.1c04298
- Significant ground-level ozone attributed to lightning-induced nitrogen oxides during summertime over the Mountain West States D. Kang et al. 10.1038/s41612-020-0108-2
- Introducing new lightning schemes into the CHASER (MIROC) chemistry–climate model Y. He et al. 10.5194/gmd-15-5627-2022
- Lightning assimilation in the WRF model (Version 4.1.1): technique updates and assessment of the applications from regional to hemispheric scales D. Kang et al. 10.5194/gmd-15-8561-2022
- Simulation of the air quality and evaluation of a future district heating system in Valdivia, Chile E. Pino-Cortés et al. 10.1016/j.apr.2024.102255
- Evaluation of the offline-coupled GFSv15–FV3–CMAQv5.0.2 in support of the next-generation National Air Quality Forecast Capability over the contiguous United States X. Chen et al. 10.5194/gmd-14-3969-2021
- Assessing the Impact of Lightning NOx Emissions in CMAQ Using Lightning Flash Data from WWLLN over the Contiguous United States D. Kang et al. 10.3390/atmos13081248
- Furthering a partnership: Air quality modeling and improving public health S. Hunt et al. 10.1080/10962247.2021.1876180
- Changes in the ozone chemical regime over the contiguous United States inferred by the inversion of NOx and VOC emissions using satellite observation J. Jung et al. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106076
- LNOx Emission Model for Air Quality and Climate Studies Using Satellite Lightning Mapper Observations Y. Wu et al. 10.1029/2022JD037406
- Evaluation of 15 years of modeled atmospheric oxidized nitrogen compounds across the contiguous United States C. Toro et al. 10.1525/elementa.2020.00158
- The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation K. Appel et al. 10.5194/gmd-14-2867-2021
- Influence of convection on the upper-tropospheric O3 and NOx budget in southeastern China X. Zhang et al. 10.5194/acp-22-5925-2022
- Declining short-term emission control opportunity for major events in Chinese cities H. Wang et al. 10.1038/s44284-025-00233-x
- Representing improved tropospheric ozone distribution over the Northern Hemisphere by including lightning NOx emissions in CHIMERE S. Ghosh et al. 10.5194/acp-25-6273-2025
- The role of air pollution (PM and NO2) in COVID-19 spread and lethality: A systematic review C. Copat et al. 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110129
- Regional background ozone estimation for China through data fusion of observation and simulation Z. Sun et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169411
- Tropospheric ozone precursors: global and regional distributions, trends, and variability Y. Elshorbany et al. 10.5194/acp-24-12225-2024
- Simulating lightning NO production in CMAQv5.2: performance evaluations D. Kang et al. 10.5194/gmd-12-4409-2019
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Short summary
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the lightning production schemes in CMAQ as described in https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/12/3071/2019/gmd-12-3071-2019.html on model performance. The impact of lightning NOx from different schemes is evaluated in time and space using both ground–level network measurements and aloft (ozonesonde and aircraft) observations. These results provide users the benchmark model performance when the lightning NOx production schemes are applied.
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the lightning production schemes in CMAQ as...
