Measured and modeled surface concentrations of aerosols from "Concentrations and radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols from 1750-2014 simulated with the OsloCTM3 and CEDS emission inventory"
By Marianne Tronstad Lund*, Gunnar Myhre, Amund Søvde Haslerud, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie, Jan Griesfeller, Stephen M. Platt, Rajesh Kumar, Cathrine Lund Myhre, Michael Schulz
*Correspondence to m.t.lund@cicero.oslo.no
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DATA DESCRIPTION
Measured surface concentrations of EC, OC, sulfate and nitrate collected from four networks and corresponding modeled concentrations from the chemistry transport model OsloCTM3. Information about individual networks is listed below.
EMEP/ACTRIS: EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme) [Tørseth et al., 2012] and ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases Research InfraStructure)[Cavalli et al., 2016; Putaud et al., 2010], archived in the EBAS data base ((http://ebas.nilu.no) at NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Measurements of EC and OC are in the PM2.5 range, whereas nitrate and sulfate measurements are filter-based with no size cutoff limit.
CASTNET: the US national Clean Air Status and Trends monitoring network (CASTNET), available from at http://www.epa.gov/castnet.
IMPROVE: The Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE), a collaborative association of state, tribal, and federal agencies, and international partners, with the US EPA as the primary funding source and support from the National Park Service. Data available from http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/Improve/. IMPROVE provides mass of aerosols using filter analysis of measurements of PM2.5
CAWNET: the Atmosphere Watch Network (CAWNET) operated by the Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA). Mass of individual aerosol species obtained from aerosol chemical composition analysis performed on PM10 samples and given in Zhang et al. [2012].
All data are annual averages for 2010 (with the exception of CAWNET measurements, which were carried out in 2006-2007) and given in µg m-3.
Citations:
Cavalli, F., et al.: A European aerosol phenomenology -4: Harmonized concentrations of carbonaceous aerosol at 10 regional background sites across Europe, Atmospheric Environment, 144, 133-145, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.07.050, 2016
Putaud, J. P., et al.: A European aerosol phenomenology 3: Physical and chemical characteristics of particulate matter from 60 rural, urban, and kerbside sites across Europe, Atmospheric Environment, 44(10), 1308-1320, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.011, 2010
Tørseth, K., et al.: Introduction to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and observed atmospheric composition change during 1972 - 2009, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12(12), 5447-5481, doi:10.5194/acp-12-5447-2012, 2012
Zhang, X. Y., et al.: Atmospheric aerosol compositions in China: spatial/temporal variability, chemical signature, regional haze distribution and comparison with global models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 779-799, 2012
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We acknowledge funding from the Norwegian Research Council through grants 250573 and 248834 and the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ACTRIS-2 Integrating Activities (IA) (grant agreement No 654109). We would like to thank all those who are involved in IMPROVE, CASTNET, EMEP and ACTRIS measurements efforts and have contributed through operating sites, performing chemical analysis and by submissions of data to public data bases.
CITATION
Lund, M. T., Myhre, G., Haslerud, A. S., Skeie, R. B., Griesfeller, J., Platt, S. M., … Schulz, M. (2018). Measured and modeled surface concentrations of aerosols publised in "Concentrations and radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols from 1750-2014 simulated with the OsloCTM3 and CEDS emission inventory". NILU - Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning. https://doi.org/10.21336/GEN.3
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ASSOCIATED ARTICLE(S)
Lund, M. T., Myhre, G., Haslerud, A. S., Skeie, R. B., Griesfeller, J., Platt, S. M., Kumar, R., Myhre, C. L., and Schulz, M.: Concentrations and radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols from 1750 to 2014 simulated with the Oslo CTM3 and CEDS emission inventory, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4909-4931, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4909-2018, 2018.