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Evaluation of SOA Formation Using a Box Model Version of CMAQ and Chamber Experimental Data

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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A box model version of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System 4.7 (CMAQ 4.7) is implemented and tested with the results obtained from a secondary organic aerosol formation experiment performed at the EUPHORE smog chamber (Valencia, Spain). In order to simulate the conditions of the chamber, no transport, dispersion, or deposition phenomena are considered in the box model. Four simulations were carried out, combining different gas-phase chemical mechanisms and aerosol modules, and compared to the experimental data obtained from the smog chamber. While the concentrations predicted by the model for the parent compounds and ozone are very close to observed values, aerosol formation is clearly overpredicted, specially when the aerosol module AERO_5 is used.

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  1. CIEMAT (Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology), 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Santiago & Marta G. Vivanco

  2. Inc. On assignment to NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, Earth Resources & Technology, Silver Spring, MD, USA

    Ariel F. Stein

  3. NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD, USA

    Fantine Ngan

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  1. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Basilicata University Potenza, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Santiago, M., Stein, A.F., Ngan, F., Vivanco, M.G. (2011). Evaluation of SOA Formation Using a Box Model Version of CMAQ and Chamber Experimental Data. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6784. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21931-3_29

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