Multimodel simulations of a springtime dust storm over northeastern China: implications of an evaluation of four commonly used air quality models (CMAQ v5.2.1, CAMx v6.50, CHIMERE v2017r4, and WRF-Chem v3.9.1)
Siqi Ma,Xuelei Zhang,Chao Gao,Daniel Q. Tong,Aijun Xiu,Guangjian Wu,Xinyuan Cao,Ling Huang,Hongmei Zhao,Shichun Zhang,Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa,Xin Wang,Xiaolan Li,and Mo Dan
Siqi Ma
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Chao Gao
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Aijun Xiu
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Guangjian Wu
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface
Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing
100101, China
Xinyuan Cao
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Ling Huang
School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai
University, Shanghai 200444, China
Hongmei Zhao
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Shichun Zhang
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Universidade de São Paulo,
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Dust storms are thought to be a worldwide societal issue, and numerical modeling is an effective way to help us to predict dust events. Here we present the first comprehensive evaluation of dust emission modules in four commonly used air quality models for northeastern China. The results showed that most of these models were able to capture this dust event and indicated the dust source maps should be carefully selected or replaced with a new one that is constructed with local data.
Dust storms are thought to be a worldwide societal issue, and numerical modeling is an effective...
