Articles | Volume 19, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8619-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8619-2019
Research article
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08 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 08 Jul 2019

The 2015 and 2016 wintertime air pollution in China: SO2 emission changes derived from a WRF-Chem/EnKF coupled data assimilation system

Dan Chen, Zhiquan Liu, Junmei Ban, and Min Chen

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We updated the WRF/Chem-EnKF DA system to quantitatively estimate SO2 emissions using hourly surface observations as constraints. The 2010 MEIC prior emissions were used to generate January 2015 and 2016 analyzed emissions, which revealed inhomogeneous SO2 emission changes for northern, western, and southern China. These changes were related to facts in reality, indicating that the updated DA system was capable of detecting emission deficiencies and optimizing emissions.
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