Black carbon concentration and deposition estimations in Finland by the regional aerosol–climate model REMO-HAM
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The prediction skill of the regional aerosol-climate model REMO-HAM was assessed against the black carbon (BC) concentration measurements from five locations in Finland, with focus on Hyytiälä station for the year 2005. We examined to what extent the model is able to reproduce the measurements using several statistical tools: median comparison, overlap coefficient OVL (the common area under two probability distributions curves) and Z-score (a measure of standard deviation, shape and spread of the distributions). The results of the statistics showed that the model is biased low, suggesting either an excessive loss of black carbon in the model, or missing emissions. A further examination of the precipitation data from both measurements and model showed that there is no correlation between REMO's excessive precipitation and BC underestimation. This suggests that the excessive wet removal is not the main cause for the low black carbon concentration output. In addition, a comparison of wind directions in relation with high black carbon concentrations shows that REMO-HAM is able to predict the BC source directions relatively well. Cumulative black carbon deposition fluxes over Finland were estimated, including the deposition on snow.
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In the European Arctic, emissions from domestic wood burning have been underestimated, as shown by Hienola et al. (2013) for Finland in a regional modeling study.
“In the European Arctic, emissions from domestic wood burning have been underestimated, as shown by Hienola et al. (2013) for Finland in a regional modeling study.”
From Local Arctic Air Pollution: A Neglected but Serious Problem (2018) · cites this paper as Hienola et al., 2013
Current Arctic emissions are especially not well quantified for metallurgical activities and BC emissions on the Kola Peninsula and for gas flaring, though the magnitude of the contribution of flaring is still unclear.
“This is especially the case for the metallurgical activities and BC emissions on the Kola Peninsula (Evans et al., 2015; Hienola et al., 2013; Prank et al., 2010) and gas fl aring, even though the magnitude of the contribution of fl aring is still unclear (Huang et al., 2015; Stohl et al., 2013; Winiger et al., 2017).”
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“Prank et al. (2010) updated SO2 and PM emissions for the Kola Peninsula after finding that emissions from one of the largest point sources, the Nikel smelter plant on the border with Finland, were either missing, misplaced, or wrongly attributed in major European inventories.”
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- Authors
- Hienola, A. I., Pietikäinen, J.-P., Jacob, D., Pozdun, R., Petäjä, T., Hyvärinen, A.-P., Sogacheva, L., Kerminen, V.-M., Kulmala, M., & Laaksonen, A.
- Affiliations
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FI)
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (DE)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Publisher
- Copernicus GmbH
- Published
- 2013-04-18
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 4033-4055
- ISSN
- 1680-7316 (ISSN-L)
- 1680-7324
- OpenAlex
- W2067089835
- Cited by
- 31
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- 1.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Atmospheric chemistry and physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Materialforschung und kustenforschung (The Helmholtz Center Geesthacht) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Academy of Finland
- Ympäristöministeriö
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Keywords
- black carbon, aerosol-climate model, model evaluation, black carbon emissions, wet deposition, precipitation, wind direction, snow deposition, Finland, Hyytiälä
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