Unexpected air quality impacts from implementation of green infrastructure in urban environments: A Kansas City case study

Zhang, Yuqiang; Bash, Jesse O.; Roselle, Shawn J.; Shatas, Angie; Repinsky, Andrea; Mathur, Rohit; Hogrefe, Christian; Piziali, Jamie; Jacobs, Tom; Gilliland, Alice

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140960

Title: Unexpected air quality impacts from implementation of green infrastructure in urban environments: A Kansas City case study

Journal Article · Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Science of the Total Environment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140960· OSTI ID:1641835

; Bash, Jesse O.; Roselle, Shawn J.; Shatas, Angie; Repinsky, Andrea; Mathur, Rohit; Hogrefe, Christian; Piziali, Jamie; Jacobs, Tom; Gilliland, Alice

Green infrastructure (GI) implementation can benefit an urban environment by reducing the impacts of urban stormwater on aquatic ecosystems and human health. However, few studies have systematically analyzed the biophysical effects on regional meteorology and air quality that are triggered by changes in the urban vegetative coverage. In this study we use a state-of-the-art highresolution air quality model to simulate the effects of a hypothetically feasible vegetation-focused GI implementation scenario in Kansas City, MO/KS on regional meteorology and air quality. Full year simulations are conducted for both the base case and GI land use scenarios using two different land surface models (LSMs) schemes inside the meteorological model. While the magnitudes of the changes in air quality due to the GI implementation differ using the two LSMs, the model outputs consistently showed increases in summertime PM_2.5 (1.1 μgm^-3, approximately 10% increase using NOAH LSM), which occurred mostly during the night and arose from the primary components, due to the cooler surface temperatures and the decreased planetary boundary layer height (PBLH). Both the maximum daily 8-hour average ozone and 1h daily maximum O₃ during summertime, decreased over the downtown areas (maximum decreases of 0.9 and 1.4 ppbv respectively). The largest ozone decreases were simulated to happen during the night, mainly caused by the titration effect of increased NO_x concentration from the lower PBLH. These results highlight the region-specific non-linear process feedback from GI on regional air quality, and further demonstrate the need for comprehensive coupled meteorological-air quality modeling systems and necessity of accurate land surface model for studying these impacts.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USEPA

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0014664

OSTI ID:: 1641835

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1904998

Journal Information:: Science of the Total Environment, Journal Name: Science of the Total Environment Vol. 744 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0048-9697

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Country of Publication:: Netherlands

Language:: English

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