Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3933-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3933-2016
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08 Nov 2016
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Accounting for model error in air quality forecasts: an application of 4DEnVar to the assimilation of atmospheric composition using QG-Chem 1.0

Emanuele Emili, Selime Gürol, and Daniel Cariolle

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This paper analyses methods to assimilate chemical measurements in air quality models. We developed a reduced-order atmospheric chemistry model, which was used to compare results from different assimilation algorithms. Using an ensemble variational method (4DEnVar), we exploited the dynamical information provided by hourly measurements of chemical concentrations to diagnose model biases and improve next-day forecasts for several species of interest for air quality.