Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2839-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2839-2020
Research article
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06 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 06 Mar 2020

Modeling diurnal variation of surface PM2.5 concentrations over East China with WRF-Chem: impacts from boundary-layer mixing and anthropogenic emission

Qiuyan Du, Chun Zhao, Mingshuai Zhang, Xue Dong, Yu Chen, Zhen Liu, Zhiyuan Hu, Qiang Zhang, Yubin Li, Renmin Yuan, and Shiguang Miao

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AR by Qiuyan Du on behalf of the Authors (07 Jan 2020)
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ED: Publish as is (06 Feb 2020) by Yun Qian
AR by Qiuyan Du on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2020)
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Simulated diurnal PM2.5 with WRF-Chem is primarily controlled by planetary boundary layer (PBL) mixing and emission variations. Modeling bias is likely primarily due to inefficient PBL mixing of primary PM2.5 during the night. The increase in PBL mixing strength during the night can significantly reduce biases. This study underscores that more effort is needed to improve the boundary mixing processes of pollutants in models with observations of PBL structure and mixing fluxes besides PBL height.
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