ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-11-3173-2011 Multi-scale modeling study of the source contributions to near-surface ozone and sulfur oxides levels over California during the ARCTAS-CARB period Huang M. 1 Carmichael G. R. 1 Spak S. N. 1 Adhikary B. 1 2 Kulkarni S. 1 Cheng Y. 1 Wei C. 1 Tang Y. 3 D'Allura A. 4 Wennberg P. O. 5 Huey G. L. 6 Dibb J. E. 7 Jimenez J. L. 8 Cubison M. J. 8 Weinheimer A. J. 9 Kaduwela A. 10 Cai C. 10 Wong M. 11 Bradley Pierce R. 12 Al-Saadi J. A. 13 Streets D. G. 14 Zhang Q. 14 Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA School of Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal Meso-scale modeling, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, W/NP2, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, USA ARIANET Srl, Milano, Italy Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Geogia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA California Air Resource Board, Sacramento, CA, USA Department of Geography, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, USA NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA 04 04 2011 11 7 3173 3194 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/3173/2011/acp-11-3173-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/3173/2011/acp-11-3173-2011.pdf

Chronic high surface ozone (O<sub>3</sub>) levels and the increasing sulfur oxides (SO<sub>x</sub> = SO<sub>2</sub>+SO<sub>4</sub>) ambient concentrations over South Coast (SC) and other areas of California (CA) are affected by both local emissions and long-range transport. In this paper, multi-scale tracer, full-chemistry and adjoint simulations using the STEM atmospheric chemistry model are conducted to assess the contribution of local emission sourcesto SC O<sub>3</sub> and to evaluate the impacts of transported sulfur and local emissions on the SC sulfur budgetduring the ARCTAS-CARB experiment period in 2008. Sensitivity simulations quantify contributions of biogenic and fire emissions to SC O<sub>3</sub> levels. California biogenic and fire emissions contribute 3–4 ppb to near-surface O<sub>3</sub> over SC, with larger contributions to other regions in CA. During a long-range transport event from Asia starting from 22 June, high SO<sub>x</sub> levels (up to ~0.7 ppb of SO<sub>2</sub> and ~1.3 ppb of SO<sub>4</sub>) is observed above ~6 km, but they did not affect CA surface air quality. The elevated SO<sub>x</sub> observed at 1–4 km is estimated to enhance surface SO<sub>x</sub> over SC by ~0.25 ppb (upper limit) on ~24 June. The near-surface SO<sub>x</sub> levels over SC during the flight week are attributed mostly to local emissions. Two anthropogenic SO<sub>x</sub> emission inventories (EIs) from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are compared and applied in 60 km and 12 km chemical transport simulations, and the results are compared withobservations. The CARB EI shows improvements over the National Emission Inventory (NEI) by EPA, but generally underestimates surface SC SO<sub>x</sub> by about a factor of two. Adjoint sensitivity analysis indicated that SO<sub>2</sub> levels at 00:00 UTC (17:00 local time) at six SC surface sites were influenced by previous day maritime emissions over the ocean, the terrestrial emissions over nearby urban areas, and by transported SO<sub>2</sub> from the north through both terrestrial and maritime areas. Overall maritime emissions contribute 10–70% of SO<sub>2</sub> and 20–60% fine SO<sub>4</sub> on-shore and over the most terrestrial areas, with contributions decreasing with in-land distance from the coast. Maritime emissions also modify the photochemical environment, shifting O<sub>3</sub> production over coastal SC to more VOC-limited conditions. These suggest an important role for shipping emission controls in reducing fine particle and O<sub>3</sub> concentrations in SC.

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