Use of an inverse method to resolve the temporal and spatial distribution of anthropogenic and biogenic emissions in Atlanta, Georgia
- Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
The Urban Airshed Model (UAM) has been used by the State of Georgia in an attempt to demonstrate attainment of the ozone standard for Atlanta. A recent comparison of UAM data to ambient data collected during the 1992 Southern Oxidants Study Atlanta intensive revealed that the model accurately predicts ozone concentrations, but is poorly simulates the concurrent ozone precursors. There were discrepancies in both the anthropogenic and biogenic precursors. For anthropogenic emissions, the ambient ratios of anthropogenic hydrocarbons (AHC) to oxides of nitrogen (NO{sub x}), AHC/NO{sub x}, and carbon monoxide (CO) to NO{sub x}, CO/NO{sub x}, were higher than the emission ratios by 20% and 73% respectively. In this study, the authors use an inverse method to reconcile the differences between the observed and predicted concentrations of ozone precursors. Inverse methods have been successfully applied to many fields including medical imaging, missile guidance, and underground tomography. This study is the first to apply the inverse method to estimate the emissions of the relatively short-lived species important to urban oxidants formation.
- OSTI ID:
- 422987
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960127--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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