On the effect of large-scale atmospheric transport on chemistry and amount of atmospheric precipitation in the center of European Russia

The dependence of precipitation amount, acidity, and ionic composition on the atmospheric circulation is studied based on the computation of the back trajectories over the period of 1982–1993. Quantitative estimates of basic parameters of trajectories are derived, and their significant difference in the summer and wintertime is considered. The trajectory frequency for the cases with precipitation in the center of European Russia is computed at the regular grid points depending on the diurnal precipitation amount, acidity, and sulfate/chloride ratio. It is shown that in case of abundant precipitation both in summer and winter the highest frequency of trajectories is observed in the same regions. In the case of low precipitation, seasonal differences are observed. It is revealed that precipitation with pH > 5 is mostly connected with the air inflow from Scandinavia and the north of European Russia, while during the trajectory passage over Central and Southern Europe pH < 5 prevails in precipitation. The chlorine ions prevail most often when trajectories pass over central regions of the Mediterranean and of Middle Asia and (although somewhat less) over Scandinavia and northern Russian seas.     

北京地区酸雨特征及影响因素

利用2003—2008年北京地区3个酸雨观测站(北京市观象台、昌平站、上甸子站)的酸雨观测资料并结合探空及大气成分资料,分析了近年来北京地区的酸雨变化特征,研究了不同气象条件和大气污染物对酸雨的影响。结果表明:2003—2008年降水平均pH值均小于5.6,且近6年来,降水pH值呈波动下降的趋势。北京地区夏、秋两季降水平均pH值及K值较春、冬季节低;pH值及K值随降水量的增大呈下降趋势,而强酸雨频率则随降水量的增大呈上升趋势;在偏南气流影响下,降水酸度增强且酸沉降量大,酸雨污染严重;当连续发生逆温状况时,酸雨出现频率增大;大气污染物SO_2,NO_2,PM_(2.5)的浓度与降水pH值成负相关关系,说明近地层污染物浓度对降水酸度有重要影响。     

The model study of the wildfire impact on the spatial distribution of deposition of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in Siberia

Presented are the results of the model study of wildfire impact on the spatial distribution of deposition fields of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in the regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East. The CHIMERE chemistry transport model was used for computing the deposition fields taking account of pyrogenic emissions specified using satellite measurements of intensity of wildfire heat radiation. Carried out is the model validation using the data of ground-based measurements of nitrate and sulfate concentrations in precipitation at the Russian EANET stations as well as the data of satellite measurements of carbon dioxide content in the troposphere and aerosol optical depth carried out by IASI and MODIS instruments, respectively. It is demonstrated that wildfires considerably influence deposition of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and redistribution of nitrogen compounds assimilated by plants within the regions under consideration.     

我国和东亚地区硫化物跨边界输送态势研究

本文利用污染物三维欧拉长距离输送实用模式,较详细地模拟了我国和东亚地区硫化物跨地区、跨边界输送态势,分析了东亚地区硫化物输送通量随高度、季节变化的分布特点,讨论了不同地区边界上硫化物的跨边界输送通量及流的收支平衡,并给出了我国和周边国家和地区之间硫化物的相互输送量。结果表明,我国向外输送的硫化物占周边国家和地区总硫沉降的比例并不大,各地区硫沉降的主要来源是自身排放;硫化物长距离输送中硫酸根的输送占重要地位,各地区硫酸根沉降中的外来比例较大。我们初步总结出一个东亚地区硫化物输送的概念模式：在低层,夏季主要自西南向东北输送,冬季长江以北自北向南输送,长江以南由西南向北输送,并在长江中下游地区形成一个较强的硫化物辐合带,在高层,无论冬夏均由西向东输送,并随高空带变化,中层为二者的过渡,春秋季的情形界于冬夏之间,偏向冬季。     

Trends in impact of acidification on groundwater bodies in the Czech Republic; an estimation of atmospheric deposition at the horizon 2015

The acidification of surface and groundwaters is a long standing issue in the Czech Republic which culminated in the second half of the last century by mass extinction of forest cover in many mountainous regions. The total deposition of sulfur at that time was reaching as much as about 108 kg/ha/year. This resulted in a decrease of alkalinity in groundwaters, decrease of pH and on the other hand an increase in concentration of nitrates, sulfates, berylium and aluminium. Desulfurization of power plants and attenuation of heavy industry leads to a decrease in sulfur deposition down to the present mean values around 16.5 kg/ha/year. It is expected that around the year 2010 the sulfur deposition should not have a substantial impact on the environment providing the similar trend would continue. However, a reverse trend can be observed in deposition of nitrogen. The growth of road traffic and more frequent use of earth gas for heating lead to a dramatic rise in nitrogen throughfall of which mean value increased from 15.4 kg/ha/year in 1990 up to 25.7 kg/ha/year in 2001. If such trend continues in future, then the mean values of nitrogen throughfall would attain 37.8 kg/ha/year in 2015, so that the nitrogen would take over the role of sulfur in acidification. Therefore, the problem of acidification in Central Europe is by no means resolved, only the structure of acidification input has been changed.     

Wet deposition of sulfate in the Inland Sea region of Japan

Precipitation chemistry data derived from a sampling network operated in the Inland Sea model region (June 1984–May 1985) are used as a basis for discussing the wet deposition of sulfate on a regional scale in Japan. Horizontal distribution, seasonal variation, relationship between wet deposition and precipitation amount, sulfate/nitrate ratio, and transport of sulfate from the ocean are discussed. Temporal trends in concentrations of atmospheric sulfur compounds and sulfate wet deposition in the model region are also covered.     

利用次网格技术模拟华东地区大气硫氮沉降

采用数值模拟方法,在区域酸性沉降模式系统中引入次网格处理技术。通过4种次网格方案模拟结果的相互比较,选择最优方案,然后利用最优次网格方案,选取华东地区为例,进一步模拟研究大气硫氮沉降的空间分布。结果表明,就干沉积速率而言,以细网格方案(水平分辨率25 km)为参照,采用次网格方案比粗网格方案(水平分辨率75 km)有明显改进,其中“次网格风速与摩擦速度之积为常数”为最优次网格方案。华东地区硫的年总沉降量是1.92 mt(1 mt=106ton),氮的年总沉降量是0.65mt。华东地区硫化物(SO2、硫酸盐SO42-)干沉降量占总沉降量的49%,氮化物(NO、NO2、硝酸盐NO3-)干沉降量占总沉降量的80%,可见干沉降在大气沉降中具有重要地位。华东地区总的大气硫、氮沉降量中,70%以上到达有植被覆盖的土壤生态系统,这将对农田、草地和森林的硫素和氮素平衡有重要影响。此外,华东部分地区的硫沉降已经超过了临界负荷,而氮沉降尚未出现超临界负荷的现象。     

Atmospheric concentrations and deposition of oxidised sulfur and nitrogen species at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 1993–1998

Wet‐only rainwater composition, acid‐precursor gas mixing ratios and aerosol loading were determined from weekly‐averaged samples at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, over the five year period from March 1993 to March 1998. Annual deposition fluxes of acidic sulfur and nitrogen species estimated from these data show this site to be heavily impacted by acidic deposition, with total oxidised sulfur plus nitrogen deposition in the range 277–480 meq m⁻² yr⁻¹. Average contributions were 56% as sulfur species, 44% as nitrogen species, with wet deposition in this region of high rainfall accounting for 67% of total deposition. Thus total acid deposition fluxes were equivalent to levels that provided motivation for emissions reduction programs in both Europe and North America. The possibility of adverse environmental effects in Malaysia caused by acid deposition therefore merits serious consideration and assessment.     

华东典型地区大气硫沉降通量的观测和模拟研究

本文使用中国科学院常熟和鹰潭生态实验站和气象站的观测资料，应用区域酸沉降模式系统（RegADMS）和大叶阻力相似模型来研究华东地区不同下垫面条件上的大气硫沉降问题，定量估计了农田下垫面上大气硫化物的沉降通量。SO2和硫酸盐的干沉降速率使用大叶阻力相似模型来估计，使用与降水量有关的参数化方案来确定湿沉降系数。结果表明，常熟地区农田下垫面的大气硫沉降通量为19．0gm^-2 a^-1，其中干沉降占42％；而位于江西红壤地区的鹰潭站的大气硫沉降通量为10．4gm^-2a^-1，其中干沉降占83％。比较发现，两地硫干沉降通量绝对值相差不大，但其在总沉降通量中所占的份额有较大差异；常熟站的硫湿沉降通量比鹰潭站要大9．23gm^-2a^-1，该差异是由两地污染状况和气象条件的不同造成。华东地区的年硫沉降总量为1．88Mt（1Mt=10^6t），其中72．8％沉降在农田下垫面上。硫沉降中43％是干沉降，57％是湿沉降。     

大气污染物SOx输送方程的尺度分析

文中用量纲分析方法分析了控制大气污染物输送方程的动力学特性。提出了 6种反映大气污染物输送过程中各种动力、物理和化学过程相对重要性的动力学参数。并以硫氧化物为例进行了各参数量级大小分析 ,尤其对 3种起汇作用 (去除机理 )的机理 (化学转化、干沉降和湿清除 )在不同尺度大气污染过程中的作用进行了详细分析。结果表明 :在一般情况下 ,SO2 的气相化学作用小于干沉降和湿清除的作用 ;干沉降作用很依赖于模式最底层厚度的选取 ;在有降雨时湿清除作用一般较大。文中还对大气污染物SOx 输送方程各项特征量的量级作了分析对比 ,得出了控制不同尺度大气污染物输送过程的零级近似方程和一级近似方程 ,并指出了这些方程的基本特征     

Analysis of a regional model (EURAD) near surface gas concentration predictions using observations from networks

Summary The three-dimensional long-range transport model EURAD has been applied to two episodes in 1986 to study the transport and transformation of air pollutants over Europe under different meteorological conditions. The spring episode is characterized by varying meteorological conditions over Europe and transport of pollutants is complex. The summer episode is suitable to study the enhanced formation of photooxidants as an almost stagnant high pressure system over central Europe favoured the accumulation of pollutants. Available observations from several monitoring networks in Europe are used to evaluate the near surface concentration predictions of the model. This is possible for the sulfur species, O₃ and NO₂ for the central part of the modelling domain. It is shown that O₃ and NO₂ trends in the western part of the model domain are estimated reasonably well. The strong bias for underpredicting NO₂ in the eastern part of the domain reflects the quality of emission data for the two regions of the modelling area. Typically for regional scale Eulerian transport models when applied on larger grid sizes, EURAD overpredicts the observed minima and underpredicts the high observations. This is particularly true for O₃ but also detectable in the sulfate comparisons. Several sensitivity simulations for both episodes were performed to test numerical algorithms, parameterizations or emission data. Results from these simulations clearly show the important role of cloud related processes during the spring time for the sulfur species. Further testing and assessment of cloud parameterizations and emission data for transport models is anticipated.With 22 Figures     

Mean, interannual variability and trends in a regional climate change experiment over Europe. I. Present-day climate (1961–1990)

We present an analysis of a multidecadal simulation of present-day climate (1961–1990) over Europe with the regional climate model RegCM nested within the global atmospheric model HadAMH. Climatic means, interannual variability and trends are examined, with focus on surface air temperature and precipitation. The RegCM driven by HadAMH fields is able to reproduce the basic features of the observed mean surface climate over Europe, its seasonal evolution and the regional detail due to topographic forcing. Surface air temperature biases are mostly less than 1–2 °C and precipitation biases mostly within 10–20%. The RegCM has more intense vertical transport of temperature and water vapor than HadAMH, which results in lower surface air temperatures and greater precipitation than found in the HadAMH simulation. In some cases this is in the direction of greater agreement with observations, while in others it is in the opposite direction. The simulation shows a tendency to overestimate interannual variability of temperature and precipitation compared to observations, particularly during summer and over the Mediterranean regions. It is shown that in DJF, MAM and SON the RegCM interannual variability is primarily determined by the boundary forcing from HadAMH, while in JJA the internal model physics and resolution effects dominate over many subregions of the domain, and the RegCM has higher interannual variability than HadAMH. The precipitation trends simulated by the nested modeling system for the period 1961–1990 capture some features of the observed trends, in particular the cold season drying over the Mediterranean regions. Ensembles of simulations are, however, needed for a more robust assessment of the models capability to simulate climatic trends. Overall, this simulation is of good quality compared with previous nested RegCM experiments and will constitute the basis for the generation of climate change scenarios over the European region to be reported in future work.     

Estimation of the dispersion of an accidental release of radionuclides and toxic materials based on weather type classification

We investigate the influence of the regional-scale weather types on the atmospheric dispersion processes of the air pollutants originated from point sources. Hypothetical accidents were simulated with two different dispersion models. During a year’s test period, the 6-h emission of a radionuclide from the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (Paks NPP, Hungary) was assumed every day and the transport and deposition of the radionuclide was simulated by the Eulerian TREX dispersion model over the Central European region. In addition, the ALOHA Gaussian air dispersion model was also used for the local environment of the Paks NPP to simulate hypothetical hourly releases of ammonia during a 10-year period. During both types of model simulations, the dispersion of the plume for each time was analysed and tested with consideration of 13 circulation types corresponding to daily weather patterns over the Carpathian Basin. There are significant correlations between circulation types and plume directions and structures both in local and regional scales. The daily circulation pattern can be easily obtained from weather analyses; the expected size and direction of polluted area after an accidental release can be quickly estimated even before an accident occurs. However, this fast method cannot replace or neglect dispersion model simulations. It gives a ‘first guess’ and a fast estimation on the direction of the plume and can provide sufficient information for decision-making strategies.     

Decadal trends of main Eurasian oscillations and the Eastern Mediterranean precipitation

Summary ?The role of the two main European low-frequency oscillations – the East Atlantic/West Russian (EA/WR) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), in controlling the precipitation in the Eastern Mediterranean region is investigated based on the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and the Israeli precipitation data for 1958–1998. The data on the EA/WR and NAO indices, received from the NCEP Climate Prediction Center, are also adapted. Composite mean sea level and precipitation anomaly patterns are constructed and analyzed. In addition to the widely investigated positive NAO trend, another, also positive EA/WR trend characterized atmospheric developments during the period. During NAO positive months, the EA/WR-associated positive SLP anomaly areas were shifted from the east Atlantic to southwest Europe. The areas were shifted to the north during the NAO-negative months and were located over central and northern Europe. This demonstrates that the use of fixed pressure NAO patterns may be not the optimum way to understand climate variability. Analysis of the NAO, EA/WR patterns, as well as that of their decadal trends, demonstrated a relationship between the main European oscillations and the EM precipitation. The results allow explanation of the observed reduction of the north Israeli precipitation by the EA/WR positive trend during the period. Received April 5, 2001; Revised February 14, 2002     

A 1951–80 global land precipitation climatology for the evaluation of general circulation models

Previous evaluations of model precipitation fields have suffered from two weaknesses; they have used only mean observed climatologies which have prevented an explicit evaluation of interannual variability, and they have generally failed to quantify the significance of differences between model and observed fields. To rectify these weaknesses, a global precipitation climatology is required which is designed with model evaluation in mind. This paper describes such a climatology representative of the period 1951–80. The climatology is based on historical gauge-precipitation measurements from over 2500 land-based station time series representing over 28% of the Earth's surface. It is necessarily biased towards terrestrial areas. The climatology (CRU5180) is derived from month-by-month gridbox precipitation estimates at 5° resolution. Although other global precipitation climatologies exist, this is the first one to have used a consistent reference period for each station, and to include the details of interannual variability. Fields of mean seasonal and annual precipitation and mean temporal variability are presented, and the variability of global-mean precipitation over 1951–80 assessed. The resulting mean monthly global precipitation fields are compared briefly with two other observed climatologies used for model evaluation, those prepared by Jaeger and Legates and Willmott. The global and hemispheric means, mean seasonal cycles, and spatial patterns of the three cimatologies are compared. Although based on a smaller set of stations than Legates and Willmott, the CRU5180 precipitation estimates agree closely with their uncorrected climatology.     

北京北部山区两次降雪过程微物理形成机制的观测—模拟研究

降雪是北京冬季的重要降水天气过程,但目前对实例降雪形成的微物理机制的观测-模拟研究较少。本文利用中尺度WRF模式结合外场观测资料,对北京2015年1月24日和11月5~6日两次不同天气条件下的山区降雪云系的微物理结构特征及降雪形成的微物理转化机制进行了分析研究,定量比较了云中水凝物含量的比例和降雪形成机制的差异。研究结果表明:(1)由于两次降雪过程的天气形势和水汽输送有较大差异,导致降雪形成的微物理转化机制也出现较大差异。11月5日降雪第一阶段水汽输送较强,云中过冷水含量较高,降雪形成以凝华增长和凇附增长为主,地面表现为雨夹雪天气,而1月24日和11月5~6日第二阶段水汽输送弱,降雪形成以凝华增长和聚并增长为主,地面表现为纯降雪天气;(2)11月5日的雨夹雪天气过程中,云中不仅有冰晶(9%)、雪晶(72%),还有云水(6%)和雨水(12%)的存在,高层生成的雪胚在下落过程中主要通过凝华(78%)和凇附(20%)过程增长。而1月24日与11月5~6日第二阶段的纯降雪过程中,云中水凝物分布相似,以冰晶和雪晶为主,1月24日冰晶含量占28%,雪晶含量占72%;11月5~6日冰晶含量占11%,雪晶含量占88%,冰粒子主要分布在高层。首先高层6~12 km通过云冰转换生成的雪胚下落到低层水汽充足区,然后通过凝华和聚并过程增长,1月24日凝华增长过程占92%,聚并增长过程仅占5%;11月5~6日凝华占88%,聚并仅占3%。(3)垂直上升气流速度与冰晶、雪晶生成和增长过程呈正相关,上升气流带来充足的水汽,配合垂直运动使得雪胚增加,凝华、凇附凇附和聚并过程增强,导致雪晶含量增加。     

The transport and dispersion of airborne contaminants in boundary layers over the ocean and an isolated island cape

A series of sixteen atmospheric tracer experiments using sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆), chemical smoke and meteorological balloons was conducted to explore the transport of airborne contaminants in the boundary layer over the ocean surface and in the separating boundary layer over an isolated island cape. The immediate objective of the tests was to determine the impact of local pollutant sources on a background air quality sampling program conducted in the South Pacific from elevated towers on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. In addition to satisfying this objective, the tests are of interest in that they illustrate the local behavior of pollutants in a complex natural atmospheric flow.Offshore tracer tests indicated that the crosswind dispersion of pollutants over the ocean surface can be approximately modeled using the simple Gaussian plume model. The observed crosswind dispersion of the tracer corresponded to that expected under neutrally stable atmospheric conditions, consistent with the near equilibration of the ocean surface and air temperature in the South Pacific. Local, or near-field, tests indicated that tracer released into the wake downwind of the leading edge of the cape mixed rapidly to a height of about 8 m above the surface (i.e., 30–40% of the cape height). Due to decoupling between the boundary layer over the cape and the freestream flow, however, very little of the tracer was observed above this height. This suggests that the impact of local pollutant sources (i.e., on the cape) would be minimized if the proposed sampling towers were elevated significantly above an 8 m altitude (e.g., twice that height).     

Sulfur budget above the Eastern Mediterranean: relative contribution of anthropogenic and biogenic sources

To access the relative contribution of anthropogenic and biogenic sulfur sources to the sulfur budget in the Eastern Mediterranean, an area characterized by very high nss-     levels, measurements of both wet and dry deposition of sulfur were performed at a remote area on the island of Crete (Finokalia) during a 3-yr period (1996–1999). The estimation of dry deposition is based on both gaseous sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and particulate phase non-sea-salt sulfate (nss-     ) and methane sulfonate (MSA) measurements. During the dry period, deposition of SO₂ from long-range transport is the main component of anthropogenic sulfur deposition in the area. The results of the wet and dry deposition obtained at Finokalia have been compared with DMS emission from seawater obtained during two yearly surveys (1997–1998) in the Cretan Sea. Our results indicate that the contribution from biogenic sources to the sulfur budget in the Eastern Mediterranean, although negligible during winter, can account for up to 26% during summer.     

用STEM—Ⅱ模式研究东亚地区春季沙尘气溶胶对硫化物输送和沉降的影响

利用ＳＴＥＭ－ＩＩ三维区域尺度大气化学模式,研究了１９９４年３月１日至１４日东亚地区春季沙尘气溶胶对硫化物输送和沉降的影响。结果表明,ＳＯ２和ＳＯ２４的大值区主要出现在我国东部地区。在模拟时段,日本地区火山源的排放对该地区大气中Ｓ分布的贡献达１０％～３０％。并与当时飞机的观测结果相吻合。模拟区域内ＳＯ２和ＳＯ２４的收支的分析研究表明,在硫的总排放量中,从东边界面流出去的输送通量最大,并出现在３０～４００Ｎ带的２～６ｋｍ高度上,这是与该地区最大的人为排放源所在地相一致的。最后,给出了模拟时段整个对流层大气ＳＯ２－４气溶胶含量的分布,还仨算了ＳＯ２－４气溶胶对地气系统的直接辐射强迫和温度变化的影响。     

Intra- to multi-decadal terrestrial precipitation regimes at the end of the 20th century

Intra- to multi-decadal (IMD) variation in terrestrial precipitation during 1901–98 was evaluated here by sampling annual precipitation rankings over 6–30 year moving time windows and converting those rankings to Mann-Whitney U statistics. Those U statistics were then used to identify the most significant concentrations of wet and dry years relative to a null hypothesis that assumes stationary climate variability. This time series analysis approach served as the basis of a climate survey method used to identify IMD precipitation regimes over continental areas, and was also used to evaluate IMD variation in time series of annual precipitation spatially averaged over those areas. These methods showed a highly significant incidence of wet years over North America during 1972–98, with 8 of the 10 wettest years of 1901–98 occurring during that 27-year period. A comparably significant incidence of late century wetness was also found over a northern Europe grid region, with 7 of the 10 wettest years occurring during 1978–98. Although significant wet and dry regimes were also found over other land areas in the last decades of the 20th century, the late century North American and northern European wet periods stood out as the most statistically significant found here during 1901–98. It is suggested that these recent wet periods are actually terrestrial evidence of a single multi-decadal precipitation mode extending across the North Atlantic, and the most observable evidence of an even broader pattern of recent North Atlantic climate change.