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Modelling Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in China

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Atmospheric chemistry models simulate the physical and chemical transformation of airborne nitrogen (N) compounds and their sinks through wet and dry deposition. This chapter reviews modelling approaches for simulating atmospheric N deposition and their recent applications for estimating N deposition to China. Parameterizations of wet deposition include scavenging via both convective updrafts and large-scale precipitation. Dry deposition is often simulated as the product of number density and dry deposition velocity based on the resistance-in-series model using local land properties and meteorological conditions. Recent modelling studies have reported the annual total N deposition to China in the range of 7.9–20.1 Tg N year−1. Reduced N (NHx) accounts for 60–80% of the total, reflecting high NH3 emissions from agricultural activities in China. Dry deposition contributes 39–62% of total deposition depending on the specific model. More direct dry deposition measurements are needed to better evaluate model results. There are also considerable uncertainties in modelling N deposition resulting from the complexity of deposition mechanisms, the uncertainty of input parameters and the properties of N components. Future work to improve the deposition mechanisms and N emission estimates is needed to obtain better modelling of atmospheric N deposition to China.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0210100).

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  2. Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

    Xuemei Wang, Ming Chang & Qiaoqiao Wang

  3. School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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Zhang, L., Wang, X., Zhao, Y., Zhang, Q., Chang, M., Wang, Q. (2020). Modelling Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in China. In: Liu, X., Du, E. (eds) Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8514-8_4

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