Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2345-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2345-2024
Research article
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23 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2024

An updated modeling framework to simulate Los Angeles air quality – Part 1: Model development, evaluation, and source apportionment

Elyse A. Pennington, Yuan Wang, Benjamin C. Schulze, Karl M. Seltzer, Jiani Yang, Bin Zhao, Zhe Jiang, Hongru Shi, Melissa Venecek, Daniel Chau, Benjamin N. Murphy, Christopher M. Kenseth, Ryan X. Ward, Havala O. T. Pye, and John H. Seinfeld

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CMAQ Model and scripts with Penning et al., 2024, ACP Y. Wang, E. Pennington, and J. Seinfeld https://doi.org/10.25740/qc346hv0119

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To assess the air quality in Los Angeles (LA), we improved the CMAQ model by using dynamic traffic emissions and new secondary organic aerosol schemes to represent volatile chemical products. Source apportionment demonstrates that the urban areas of the LA Basin and vicinity are NOx-saturated, with the largest sensitivity of O3 to changes in volatile organic compounds in the urban core. The improvement and remaining issues shed light on the future direction of the model development.
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