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Reduced-complexity air quality intervention modeling over China: The development of InMAPv1.6.1-China and a comparison with CMAQv5.2

Geoscientific Model Development, ISSN: 1991-9603, Vol: 14, Issue: 12, Page: 7621-7638
2021
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Article Description

This paper presents the first development and evaluation of a reduced-complexity air quality model for China. In this study, the reduced-complexity Intervention Model for Air Pollution over China (InMAP-China) is developed by linking a regional air quality model, a reduced-complexity air quality model, an emission inventory database for China, and a health impact assessment model to rapidly estimate the air quality and health impacts of emission sources in China. The modeling system is applied over mainland China for 2017 under various emission scenarios. A comprehensive model evaluation is conducted by comparison against conventional Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system simulations and ground-based observations. We found that InMAP-China satisfactorily predicted total PM2.5 concentrations in terms of statistical performance. Compared with the observed PM2.5 concentrations, the mean bias (MB), normalized mean bias (NMB) and correlations of the total PM2.5 concentrations are -8.1gm-3, -18% and 0.6, respectively. The statistical performance is considered to be satisfactory for a reduced-complexity air quality model and remains consistent with that evaluated in the USA. The underestimation of total PM2.5 concentrations was mainly caused by its composition, primary PM2.5. In terms of the ability to quantify source contributions of PM2.5 concentrations, InMAP-China presents similar results to those based on the CMAQ model, with variation mainly caused by the different treatment of secondary inorganic aerosols in the two models. Focusing on the health impacts, the annual PM2.5-related premature mortality estimated using InMAP-China in 2017 was 1.92 million, which was 250000 deaths lower than estimated based on CMAQ simulations as a result of the underestimation of PM2.5 concentrations. This work presents a version of the reduced-complexity air quality model over China that provides a powerful tool to rapidly assess the air quality and health impacts associated with control policy and to quantify the source contribution attributable to many emission sources.

Bibliographic Details

Ruili Wu; Xinyin Qin; Shigan Liu; Qiang Zhang; Christopher W. Tessum; Yang Zhang; Chaopeng Hong; Yixuan Zheng

Copernicus GmbH

Mathematics; Earth and Planetary Sciences

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