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Xuemei Wang, Ziwei Chai Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Impacts of Meteorological Conditions Modified by Urban Expansion on Surface Ozone over Yangtz River Delta and Pearl River Delta region, China. Xuemei Wang, Ziwei Chai Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Fei Chen, Christine Wiedinmyer, Alex Guenther, Mukul Tewari

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Xuemei Wang, Ziwei Chai Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

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  1. Impacts of Meteorological Conditions Modified by Urban Expansion on Surface Ozone over Yangtz River Delta and Pearl River Delta region, China Xuemei Wang, Ziwei Chai Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Fei Chen, Christine Wiedinmyer, Alex Guenther, Mukul Tewari National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA 6th Annual CMAS Conference October 1st,2007

  2. Outline • Regional Air Quality Issues • Meteorological conditions modified by urban expansion • Impacts of urban expansion on surface ozone • Summary

  3. Satellite View Alerts China to Soaring Pollution(GOME and SCIAMACHY) NO2(vertical column) Yangtze River Delta/ Shanghai Region (YRD) Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) NO2(1996 - 2004) (Richter et al., Nature, Sept 1, 2005)

  4. 2004 2002 2003 2001 Spring Summer Atmospheric Opitcal Depth(AOD) Autumn Winter

  5. Rapid Urban Expansion in PRD and YRD, China 1993 2002 1993 PRDArea = 41700 km2, Population: 1986~20million, 2005 > 45 million YRD Area= 95225 km2, Population: 1986~30million, 2005 > 60 million 2002

  6. more pronounced urban heat islands (UHI) Consequences of rapid urbanization 2004-6-30 2:57am more surface emission in PRD

  7. Impacts of Meteorological Conditions Urban heat islands reduce the strength of nocturnal land-breeze (return flow from land to sea), so air pollutants tend to accumulate over land. Lo, J.C.F., A.K.H. Lau, F. Chen,J.C.H. Fung, and K.K.M. Leung,2007 (J. Appli. Meteorol. And Climate)

  8. WRF-Chem 12-km Simulation and Configuration WRF-CHEM model configuration WSM 5-class microphysics Kain-Fritsch cumulus Dudhia scheme short wave RRTM longwave radiation Yonsei University (YSU) (PBL) Noah land surface scheme Urban Canopy model (UCM) Fast-J radiation scheme RADM2/SORGAM (gas+ aerosol) Initial and Boundary conditions 1-degree FNL for meteorology 6-min resolution emission inventory TRACE-P observation data for chemistry Topographical height (m) Simulation March 2001

  9. Evaluation of WRF-Chem Met. Simulation Compared with NCEP analysis data,WRF monthly averaged 2-m temperature and wind direction have the same pattern, but with higher wind speed in YRD

  10. Evaluation of WRF-Chem Simulated Concentration Simulations from two WRF-Chem packages have similar trend

  11. Urbanization Increases both Day- and Night-time 2-m TemperatureSimulation Urban - Simulation PRE-Urban averaged for March 2001 YRD PRD PRD has smaller increase of 2-m temperature than YRD

  12. Urbanization Decreases both Day- and Night-time 10-m Wind Speed PRD has larger decrease of 10-m wind speed than YRD, and daytime reduction in wind speed is larger than that for nighttime

  13. Urbanization Decreases both Day- and Night-time 2-m Water Mixing Ratio PRD has larger decrease of 2-m water mixing ratio than YRD, and daytime reduction in Q2 is larger than that for nighttime

  14. Urbanization Increases both Day- and Night-time Boundary Layer Depth PRD has smaller increase in PBL depth than YRD

  15. Urbanization Increases Surface Ozone Concentration Urbanization increases surface ozone (more for nighttime) PRD has larger increase than YRD

  16. Differences in 10-m wind and O3 between Urban and Pre-urban Relative O3 change (ppbv) and relative 10-m wind difference Daytime Nighttime Urbanization enhances the convergence, especially in the PRD. Daytime convergence is weaker than that for nighttime

  17. Summary • Impacts of urban expansion can modify surface and PBL structures: • increase temperature and decrease wind speed • PBL depth increase more in the day time than that in the night time. • Comparing PRD and YRD (cities clusters with different urban distribution and located in different climate regimes), PRD has • smaller increase of 2-m temperature than YRD • larger decrease of 10-m wind speed than YRD • smaller increase of PBL depth than YRD • larger increase of surface ozone than YRD. • larger decrease of 2-m water mixing ratio than YRD • Dynamic and thermal effects of urbanization all have impacts on surface ozone.

  18. Thank you !

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