Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4357-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4357-2021
Research article
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22 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 22 Mar 2021

Revealing the sulfur dioxide emission reductions in China by assimilating surface observations in WRF-Chem

Tie Dai, Yueming Cheng, Daisuke Goto, Yingruo Li, Xiao Tang, Guangyu Shi, and Teruyuki Nakajima

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The anthropogenic emission of sulfur dioxide (SO2) over China has significantly declined as a consequence of the clean air actions. We have developed a new emission inversion system to dynamically update the SO2 emission grid by grid over China by assimilating ground-based SO2 observations. The inverted SO2 emission over China in November 2016 on average had declined by 49.4 % since 2010, which is well in agreement with the bottom-up estimation of 48.0 %.
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