Quantifying the local influence at a tall tower site in nocturnal conditions

Werth, David; Buckley, Robert; Zhang, Gengsheng; Kurzeja, Robert; Leclerc, Monique; Duarte, Henrique; Parker, Matthew; Watson, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s00704-015-1648-y

Title: Quantifying the local influence at a tall tower site in nocturnal conditions

Journal Article · Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Theoretical and Applied Climatology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1648-y· OSTI ID:1354695

Werth, David ^[1]; Buckley, Robert ^[1]; Zhang, Gengsheng ^[2]; Kurzeja, Robert ^[1]; Leclerc, Monique ^[2]; Duarte, Henrique ^[2]; Parker, Matthew ^[1]; Watson, Thomas ^[3]

Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA (United States). Lab. for Atmospheric and Environmental Physics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Tracer Technology Group

The influence of the local terrestrial environment on nocturnal atmospheric CO₂ measurements at a 329-m television transmitter tower (and a component of a CO₂ monitoring network) was estimated in this paper with a tracer release experiment and a subsequent simulation of the releases. This was done to characterize the vertical transport of emissions from the surface to the uppermost tower level and how it is affected by atmospheric stability. The tracer release experiment was conducted over two nights in May of 2009 near the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. Tracer was released on two contrasting nights—slightly stable and moderately stable—from several upwind surface locations. Measurements at the 329-m level on both nights indicate that tracer was able to mix vertically within a relatively short (~24 km) distance, implying that nocturnal stable conditions do not necessarily prevent vertical dispersion in the boundary layer and that CO₂ measurements at the tower are at least partly influenced by nearby emissions. A simulation of the tracer release is used to calculate the tower footprint on the two nights to estimate the degree to which the local domain affects the tower readings. The effect of the nocturnal boundary layer on the area sampled by the tower can be seen clearly, as the footprints were affected by changes in stability. Finally, the contribution of local sources to the measurements at the tower was minimal, however, suggesting that nocturnal concentrations at upper levels are contributed mostly by regional sources.

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Research Organization:: Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Contributing Organization:: Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC09-08SR22470

OSTI ID:: 1354695

Report Number(s):: BNL-113796-2017-JA; R&D Project: 2016-BNL-EE630EECA-Budg; KP1701000

Journal Information:: Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 127, Issue 3; ISSN 0177-798X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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