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DOI | 10.5194/acp-19-295-2019 |
Assessing uncertainties of a geophysical approach to estimate surface fine particulate matter distributions from satellite-observed aerosol optical depth | |
Jin X.; Fiore A.M.; Curci G.; Lyapustin A.; Civerolo K.; Ku M.; Van Donkelaar A.; Martin R.V. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 16807316 |
起始页码 | 295 |
结束页码 | 313 |
卷号 | 19期号:1 |
英文摘要 | Health impact analyses are increasingly tapping the broad spatial coverage of satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) products to estimate human exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). We use a forward geophysical approach to derive ground-level PM 2.5 distributions from satellite AOD at 1 km 2 resolution for 2011 over the northeastern US by applying relationships between surface PM 2.5 and column AOD (calculated offline from speciated mass distributions) from a regional air quality model (CMAQ; 1212 km2 horizontal resolution). Seasonal average satellite-derived PM 2.5 reveals more spatial detail and best captures observed surface PM 2.5 levels during summer. At the daily scale, however, satellite-derived PM 2.5 is not only subject to measurement uncertainties from satellite instruments, but more importantly to uncertainties in the relationship between surface PM 2.5 and column AOD. Using 11 ground-based AOD measurements within 10 km of surface PM 2.5 monitors, we show that uncertainties in modeled PM 2.5 =AOD can explain more than 70% of the spatial and temporal variance in the total uncertainty in daily satellite-derived PM 2.5 evaluated at PM 2.5 monitors. This finding implies that a successful geophysical approach to deriving daily PM 2.5 from satellite AOD requires model skill at capturing day-to-day variations in PM 2.5 =AOD relationships. Overall, we estimate that uncertainties in the modeled PM 2.5 =AOD lead to an error of 11 μm -3 in daily satellite-derived PM 2.5 , and uncertainties in satellite AOD lead to an error of 8μgm -3 . Using multi-platform ground, airborne, and radiosonde measurements, we show that uncertainties of modeled PM 2.5 =AOD are mainly driven by model uncertainties in aerosol column mass and speciation, while model representation of relative humidity and aerosol vertical profile shape contributes some systematic biases. The parameterization of aerosol optical properties, which determines the mass extinction efficiency, also contributes to random uncertainty, with the size distribution being the largest source of uncertainty and hygroscopicity of inorganic salt the second largest. Future efforts to reduce uncertainty in geophysical approaches to derive surface PM 2.5 from satellite AOD would thus benefit from improving model representation of aerosol vertical distribution and aerosol optical properties, to narrow uncertainty in satellite-derived PM 2.5 . © 2019 Author(s). |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | aerosol; air quality; mass extinction; optical depth; particulate matter; relative humidity; satellite imagery; spatiotemporal analysis; uncertainty analysis; vertical distribution; vertical profile; United States |
来源期刊 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/144734 |
作者单位 | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of l'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; Center of Excellence for the Forecast of Severe Weather, University of l'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, United States; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY, United States; Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jin X.,Fiore A.M.,Curci G.,et al. Assessing uncertainties of a geophysical approach to estimate surface fine particulate matter distributions from satellite-observed aerosol optical depth[J],2019,19(1). |
APA | Jin X..,Fiore A.M..,Curci G..,Lyapustin A..,Civerolo K..,...&Martin R.V..(2019).Assessing uncertainties of a geophysical approach to estimate surface fine particulate matter distributions from satellite-observed aerosol optical depth.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,19(1). |
MLA | Jin X.,et al."Assessing uncertainties of a geophysical approach to estimate surface fine particulate matter distributions from satellite-observed aerosol optical depth".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19.1(2019). |
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