Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-223-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-223-2021
Model experiment description paper
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15 Jan 2021
Model experiment description paper |  | 15 Jan 2021

Numerical study of the effects of initial conditions and emissions on PM2.5 concentration simulations with CAMx v6.1: a Xi'an case study

Han Xiao, Qizhong Wu, Xiaochun Yang, Lanning Wang, and Huaqiong Cheng

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The dataset of the manuscript "Numerical study of the initial condition and emission on simulating PM2.5 concentrations in Comprehensive Air Quality Model with extensions version 6.1 (CAMx v6.1): Taking Xi'an as example Han Xiao, Qizhong Wu, Xiaochun Yang, Lanning Wang, and Huaqiong Cheng https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3824676

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Few studies have investigated the effects of initial conditions on the simulation or prediction of PM2.5 concentrations. Here, sensitivity experiments are used to explore the effects of three initial mechanisms (clean, restart, and continuous) and emissions in Xi’an in December 2016. According to this work, if the restart mechanism cannot be used due to computing resource and storage space limitations when forecasting PM2.5 concentrations, a spin-up time of at least 27 h is needed.