Atmospheric chemistry models usually perform badly in forecasting wintertime air pollution because of their uncertainties. Generally, such uncertainties can be decreased effectively by techniques such as data assimila...Atmospheric chemistry models usually perform badly in forecasting wintertime air pollution because of their uncertainties. Generally, such uncertainties can be decreased effectively by techniques such as data assimilation（DA） and model output statistics（MOS）. However, the relative importance and combined effects of the two techniques have not been clarified. Here,a one-month air quality forecast with the Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry（WRF-Chem） model was carried out in a virtually operational setup focusing on Hebei Province, China. Meanwhile, three-dimensional variational（3 DVar） DA and MOS based on one-dimensional Kalman filtering were implemented separately and simultaneously to investigate their performance in improving the model forecast. Comparison with observations shows that the chemistry forecast with MOS outperforms that with 3 DVar DA, which could be seen in all the species tested over the whole 72 forecast hours. Combined use of both techniques does not guarantee a better forecast than MOS only, with the improvements and degradations being small and appearing rather randomly. Results indicate that the implementation of MOS is more suitable than 3 DVar DA in improving the operational forecasting ability of WRF-Chem.展开更多
With an increasing number of air quality monitoring stations installed around the Chinese mainland,high-resolution aerosol observations become available,allowing improvements in air pollution monitoring and aerosol fo...With an increasing number of air quality monitoring stations installed around the Chinese mainland,high-resolution aerosol observations become available,allowing improvements in air pollution monitoring and aerosol forecasting.However,the multi scales(especially small-scale)information included in high-resolution aerosol observations could not be effectively utilized by the traditional three-dimensional variational method(3DVAR).This study attempted to extend the traditional 3DVAR to a multi-scale 3DVAR with two iteration steps,two-scale-3DVAR(TS-3DVAR),to improve the effectiveness of assimilating high-resolution observations.In TS-3DVAR,the large-scale and small-scale components of observation information were decomposed from the original high-resolution observations using a Gaussian smoothing method and then assimilated using the corresponding large-scale or small-scale background error covariances which were derived from the partitioned background error samples.The data assimilation(DA)analysis field generated by TS-3DVAR is more accurate than 3DVAR in reproducing the field’s multi-scale characteristics,which could thus be used as the initial chemical field of the air quality model to improve aerosol forecasting.Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5μm(PM_(2.5))and 10.0μm(PM_(10)) from the surface air quality monitoring stations from November 01 to November 30,2018 at 00:00 were assimilated daily to verify the effects of TS-3DVAR and 3DVAR on the aerosol analysis and forecast accuracy.The results showed that TS-3DVAR better constrained both large-scale and small-scale,especially the spatial wavelengths in a range of 54-216 km and those above 351 km.The average power spectra of the TS-3DVAR assimilation increment in the two wavelength ranges were 71.70%and 35.33%higher than those of 3DVAR.As a result,the TS-3DVAR was more effective than 3DVAR in improving the accuracy of the initial chemical field,and thereby the forecasting capability for PM_(2.5).In the initial chemical field,the 30-day average correlation coefficient(Corr)of PM_(2.5) of TS-3DVAR was 0.052(6.12%)higher than that of 3DVAR,and the root mean square error(RMSE)of TS-3DVAR was 3.446μg m^(−3)(16.4%)lower than that of 3DVAR.For the forecasting capability for PM_(2.5) mass concentration,the 30-day average Corr of TS-3DVAR during the 0-24 hour forecast period was 0.025(5.08%)higher than that of 3DVAR,and the average RMSE was 2.027μg m^(−3)(4.85%)lower.The positive effect of TS-3DVAR on the improvement of forecasting capability can last for more than 24 h.展开更多
基金supported by the State Key Research and Development Program (Grant Nos. 2017YFC0209803, 2016YFC0208504, 2016YFC0203303 and 2017YFC0210106)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91544230, 41575145, 41621005 and 41275128)
文摘Atmospheric chemistry models usually perform badly in forecasting wintertime air pollution because of their uncertainties. Generally, such uncertainties can be decreased effectively by techniques such as data assimilation（DA） and model output statistics（MOS）. However, the relative importance and combined effects of the two techniques have not been clarified. Here,a one-month air quality forecast with the Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry（WRF-Chem） model was carried out in a virtually operational setup focusing on Hebei Province, China. Meanwhile, three-dimensional variational（3 DVar） DA and MOS based on one-dimensional Kalman filtering were implemented separately and simultaneously to investigate their performance in improving the model forecast. Comparison with observations shows that the chemistry forecast with MOS outperforms that with 3 DVar DA, which could be seen in all the species tested over the whole 72 forecast hours. Combined use of both techniques does not guarantee a better forecast than MOS only, with the improvements and degradations being small and appearing rather randomly. Results indicate that the implementation of MOS is more suitable than 3 DVar DA in improving the operational forecasting ability of WRF-Chem.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41975167 & 41775123)。
文摘With an increasing number of air quality monitoring stations installed around the Chinese mainland,high-resolution aerosol observations become available,allowing improvements in air pollution monitoring and aerosol forecasting.However,the multi scales(especially small-scale)information included in high-resolution aerosol observations could not be effectively utilized by the traditional three-dimensional variational method(3DVAR).This study attempted to extend the traditional 3DVAR to a multi-scale 3DVAR with two iteration steps,two-scale-3DVAR(TS-3DVAR),to improve the effectiveness of assimilating high-resolution observations.In TS-3DVAR,the large-scale and small-scale components of observation information were decomposed from the original high-resolution observations using a Gaussian smoothing method and then assimilated using the corresponding large-scale or small-scale background error covariances which were derived from the partitioned background error samples.The data assimilation(DA)analysis field generated by TS-3DVAR is more accurate than 3DVAR in reproducing the field’s multi-scale characteristics,which could thus be used as the initial chemical field of the air quality model to improve aerosol forecasting.Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5μm(PM_(2.5))and 10.0μm(PM_(10)) from the surface air quality monitoring stations from November 01 to November 30,2018 at 00:00 were assimilated daily to verify the effects of TS-3DVAR and 3DVAR on the aerosol analysis and forecast accuracy.The results showed that TS-3DVAR better constrained both large-scale and small-scale,especially the spatial wavelengths in a range of 54-216 km and those above 351 km.The average power spectra of the TS-3DVAR assimilation increment in the two wavelength ranges were 71.70%and 35.33%higher than those of 3DVAR.As a result,the TS-3DVAR was more effective than 3DVAR in improving the accuracy of the initial chemical field,and thereby the forecasting capability for PM_(2.5).In the initial chemical field,the 30-day average correlation coefficient(Corr)of PM_(2.5) of TS-3DVAR was 0.052(6.12%)higher than that of 3DVAR,and the root mean square error(RMSE)of TS-3DVAR was 3.446μg m^(−3)(16.4%)lower than that of 3DVAR.For the forecasting capability for PM_(2.5) mass concentration,the 30-day average Corr of TS-3DVAR during the 0-24 hour forecast period was 0.025(5.08%)higher than that of 3DVAR,and the average RMSE was 2.027μg m^(−3)(4.85%)lower.The positive effect of TS-3DVAR on the improvement of forecasting capability can last for more than 24 h.
