forecast and hindcast modeling in the grand bay mercury intensive
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Forecast and Hindcast Modeling in the Grand Bay Mercury Intensive. Mark Cohen, Fantine Ngan , Roland Draxler , Winston Luke, Paul Kelley, and Richard Artz NOAA Air Resources Lab, Silver Spring, Maryland _____________________ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Grand Bay Mercury Intensive, Data and Planning Meeting, Jan 24, 2011, Georgia Tech University
Forecast and Hindcast Modeling in the Grand Bay Mercury Intensive
Mark Cohen, Fantine Ngan, Roland Draxler, Winston Luke, Paul Kelley, and Richard Artz
NOAA Air Resources Lab, Silver Spring, Maryland _____________________
Grand Bay Mercury Intensive Data and Planning Meeting, Jan 24, 2011Georgia Tech UniversityAtlanta, GA
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Outline
emissions of Hg(0), Hg(II), Hg(p)
Hg from other sources: local, regional & more distant
wet and dry depositionto the water surface
Enhanced oxidation of Hg(0) to RGM?
Enhanced deposition?
Reactive halogens in marine boundary layer
Measurement of wet
deposition
Measurement of ambient air
concentrations
wet and dry deposition
to the watershed
1. Forecasting for mission planning
2. High-resolution hindcast meteorological modeling (Fantine Ngan)
3. Atmospheric Mercury and Other Hindcast Modeling
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Forecasting for Mission Planning During the Summer 2010 Intensive
Based on the NOAA NCEP NAM 12km weather forecast model product
This forecast starts at UTC 00 for the given date, which is 7 PM the night before in Grand Bay time (GBT).
The hours displayed in the product – 9 AM to 8 PM GBT – thus represented hours 14-25 in the 48 hr t00z forecast.
The file became available to NOAA ARL at ~2:00 AM GBT, and the processing of the data to make this product was generally done by 5:00 – 6 00 GBT.
Goal was to have product ready each day by 7:00 GBT
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HYSPLIT-based forecast product for the Grand Bay Intensive
Trajectories (pages 2-13)
One page for each local hour from 9 AM to 8 PM
Image in upper left corner is mixing height (m)
The other five images are back-trajectory maps, each map representing a starting point at a different elevation (meters) above mean-sea-level (250, 500, 1000, 2000, and 3000)
There are nine trajectories shown on each map: one starting at the Grand Bay NERR and on a +/- 1 deg lat/long grid around the NERR
The trajectories each go back 96 hours; but the trajectories may not stay on the map for all 96 hours.
On each trajectory there is a little dot showing the location at six-hour intervals; and a larger symbol at 00 UTC each day.
In the panel below the trajectories, the height above the surface is shown for each trajectory as it goes back in time
Note that elevations in trajectory maps are shown as being “above ground level”, and the starting heights labels in the panels below each trajectory are shown for the first trajectory run. This happened to started over land where the elevation was ~80m, so, the labels happen to refer to that trajectory, so the labels say ~170, 420, 920, 1920, and 2920.
Wind Direction at Different Elevations (pages 14-25)
One page for each local hour from 9 AM to 8 PM
Each image shows a map of wind direction, at each grid point in the NAMSF 12-km forecast at a particular vertical level in the met data set
There are 6 maps, corresponding approximately to the elevations 10, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000.
The met data is on “terrain following sigma levels”; so, the heights above the ground at any given location are influenced by the terrain height.
Meteorological Data Contours (pages 26-37)
One page for each local hour from 9 AM to 8 PM
Image in upper left corner and upper middle are the mixing height (same map as shown on Trajectory pages). The two maps are slightly different due do differing interpolation procedures
The map in the upper right corner is forecast precipitation, shown as a 3-hr accumulation, ending at that hour; that is the amounts shown are the total forecast precipitation over the previous 3 hrs.
Other maps shown are for the following three surface parameters: pressure, downward shortwave radiation flux, and friction velocity
Meteorological Data for Grand Bay NERR (pages 38-50) Page 38 is description of data that are shown Then, one page for each local hour from 9 AM to 8 PM Each page shows the meteorological data at the surface and at each level
of the gridded, forecast meteorological data set. Note that on these pages and throughout, times are expressed in UTC
(Universal Time Coordinate). These are currently 5 hrs ahead of Grand Bay, e.g., 9 AM Grand Bay is 2 PM UTC (or UTC 14)
RGM Plumes from Large Regional Sources (pages 51-63)
Page 51 shows a map of some of the large sources in the region; as stated on map, some of the sources are no longer emitting. These sources were not included in these simulations.
One page for each local hour from 9 AM to 8 PM; each page shows model-estimated RGM concentrations for six different vertical layers n the atmosphere.
These maps do not represent the total RGM in the atmosphere, but only the fraction contributed by large regional sources.
The maps show average concentrations for the hour leading up to the stated hour, e.g., the map for UTC 14 represents average concentrations between UTC 13 and 14 (8 – 9 AM Grand Bay)
Based on the t00z NAM-12km forecast generated by the National Weather Service
This forecast starts at UTC 00 for the given date, which is 7 PM the night before in Grand Bay time (GBT). The hours displayed in this product – 9 AM to 8 PM GBT – thus represent hours 14-25 in the 48 hr t00z forecast. The file becomes available to NOAA ARL at ~2:00 AM GBT, and the processing of the data to make this product is generally done by 5:00 – 6 00 GBT.
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The first set of pages were hourly maps of mixing heights and back trajectories
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The second set of pages were hourly maps of wind vectors at different heights
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The third set of pages were hourly maps of mixing height, PBL-height, 3-hr precipitation, surface pressure,
downward shortwave radiation flux and friction velocity
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The fourth set of pages were hourly tables of surface variables and meteorological
parameters in a vertical column above the site
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The fifth set of pages were hourly maps of modeled RGM concentrations in the region,
arising from anthropogenic sources in the region
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Forecasting for next intensive?
What format would be most helpful? Maybe just have one page per hour, and then one could look at
one part of the page as one scrolled through… This would mean far less information, though, as we are limited
to about six images per page… If we did it this way, what would the six images be? Or maybe this is too limited? Another issue was bandwidth for downloading – I had to
degrade the quality of the images significantly in order to keep file size as small as it was (~12 MB), and even this was perhaps too large
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2. High Resolution Hindcast Meteorological Modeling
A 4-km meteorological data modeling analysis (with data assimilation) has been produced by Dr. Fantine Ngan, a post-doc at NOAA ARL, for the Summer 2010 Intensive
Unfortunately, Fantine couldn’t be at this meeting as she is at the AMS meeting in Seattle this week, but she prepared the slides in this section for presentation here
10 m wind fields 18 UTC August 06
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South-west corner (km)
Number of cells Resolution (km)
Starting point relative to mother domain
X-origin Y-origin Easting Northing X-direction Y-direction
D01 -2808 -2268 157 127 36 1 1
D02 180 -1548 193 223 12 84 21
D03 708 -1260 163 151 4 45 25
Projection center: 40N, 100WStandard latitude: 30N, 60N
Layers: 43, with model top at 50 mb (1st layer thickness is 33 m and 15 layers are below 850 mb)
Domain configuration
D01
D02
D03Grand Bay– 30.4123, -88.4037, 5 m
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Simulation period: 210/07/31 00 UTC – 08/13 12 UTC
IC/BC for D01 is from GFS data + objectively analysis (OBS2GRID)Others are nestdown from coarse domain.
3D grid nudging, SFC nudging and OBS nudging are on for all domains
The model was run in 5.5 day segments and re-initialized every 5 days. There were 12 hours overlapping between each run segment.The soil moisture and temperature in the input files were replaced with the WRF output in the previous run segment
run segment period p1 7/30 00 UTC – 8/4 12 UTC p2 8/4 00 UTC – 8/9 12 UTC p3 8/9 00 UTC – 8/13 12 UTC
Physical optionsmicrophysics: WSM 3-class schemeradiation scheme: RRTM scheme for longwave radiation
Dudhia scheme for shortwave radiationland surface model: PX LSMPBL scheme: ACM2 schemecumulus scheme: Grell-Devenyi Ensemble scheme
Model Setup
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Temperature time series at Grand BayBlack *: observation, Red line: WRF model
Relative humidity time series at Grand Bay
Measurements are provided by Winston Luke 49
Wind speed time series at Grand BayBlack *: observation, Red line: WRF model
Wind direction time series at Grand Bay
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Soundings at Grand Bay at 2010/08/06 16 UTC
Wind speed
Potential temperature
Measurements are provided by Winston Luke 51
2 m temperature 09 UTC August 06 2 m temperature 19 UTC August 06
PBL height 09 UTC August 06 PBL height 19 UTC August 06
Shaded background: modelColor circles: MADIS OBS
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10 m wind fields 12 UTC August 06 10 m wind fields 15 UTC August 06
10 m wind fields 18 UTC August 06 10 m wind fields 21 UTC August 06
Shaded : model wind speedVector: model wind vectorsColor circles: MADIS OBS
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Questions for the group
We are going to be using this dataset for modeling, but would this met data set be useful for anybody’s else’s data analysis?
Fantine (and/or Mark) might be able to help extract needed data for any particular use…
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3. Atmospheric Mercury and Other Hindcast Modeling
A. Back-trajectory modeling using HYSPLIT
B. Comprehensive Fate and Transport Modeling using HYSPLIT-Hg
Note – both kinds of modeling will utilize high-resolution met data developed by Fantine to the greatest extent possible
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3. Atmospheric Mercury and Other Hindcast ModelingA. Back-Trajectory Modeling Using HYSPLIT
Can model back-trajectories arriving at the Grand Bay site and try to correlate with observations at the site
Can model back-trajectories associated with any given air-craft measurement and try to correlate with these measurements
The idea is that maybe having information regarding where air masses were coming from will help with data interpretation
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Time series of Reactive Gaseous Mercury (RGM), Fine Particulate Mercury (FPM) and Gaseous Elemental Mercury (GEM) from two co-located instruments (D1 and D2) (top graph) and of SO2, O3, NO, NOy, and CO (bottom graph) measured at the Grand Bay NERR from May 3-8, 2008
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Time series of Reactive Gaseous Mercury (RGM), Fine Particulate Mercury (FPM) and Gaseous Elemental Mercury (GEM) from two co-located instruments (D1 and D2) at the Grand Bay NERR from May 3-8, 2008
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Date and Time (UTC)59
Date and Time (UTC)60
Date and Time (UTC)61
Date and Time (UTC)62
Date and Time (UTC)63
Date and Time (UTC)64
Date and Time (UTC)65
Date and Time (UTC)66
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3. Atmospheric Mercury and Other Hindcast ModelingB. Comprehensive Fate and Transport Modeling Using HYSPLIT-Hg
Model mercury from regional and global sources for the time period of the Intensive
Compare model predictions against surface measurements at the Grand Bay NERR site as well as measurements aloft during flights
One goal is help with data interpretation, i.e., help explain why we saw what we saw
Another goal of this analysis will be model sensitivity and model evaluation, i.e., Can model reproduce measurements? If not, why? Sensitivity to key uncertainties?
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Emissions from sources during intensive, especially local/regional sources that particularly impacted our observations?
Some issues with mercury fate/transport modeling
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Emissions data: a critical model input
In model evaluation, want to diagnose weaknesses in model without large influence of emissions errors
Need accurate, speciated emissions estimates for all sources impacting the site – for the time period of the episode
Resolution: 2.5 min Duration: 11 Days
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25-Aug 26-Aug 27-Aug 28-Aug 29-Aug 30-Aug 31-Aug 01-Sep 02-Sep 03-Sep 04-Sep 05-Sep
Hg
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HgT
Hg0
Hg2
Series 3300 CEM - Continuous Speciated Mercury Data
Pascagoula MSW Incinerator shut
down in Jan 2001, but still in 2002 NEI
CRIST: New scrubber installed Dec 2009 will dramatically reduce RGM emissions
Lowman reported dramatic drop in mercury emissions in 2008 TRI
Brewton paper mill : Hg emissions in 2002 NEI , but do not appear in 2000-2008 TRI
IPSCO Steel: significant Hg
emissions in 2002 NEI, but
negligible emissions in
2008 TRI
Large mercury emissions point sources from USEPA 2002 National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
Grand Bay NERR site
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Emissions from sources during intensive, especially local/regional sources that particularly impacted our observations?
Some issues with mercury fate/transport modeling
How to incorporate bromine and other chemical measurements into the modeling? What kind of collaboration makes sense?
Model configuration for prediction and subsequent comparison at a fixed site – e.g., the Grand Bay NERR site -- is “routine”, but prediction & comparison for a moving platform will be a little more challenging
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Summary of modeling questions for the group discussed in this presentation
FORECASTING: What kind of forecast product would be most useful for the next intensive?
HIGH-RES MET DATA: Does anybody need/want extracts from the high-resolution met data set, or can think of any other way that this data set might be useful for their analysis?
BACK-TRAJECTORY MODELING: We will most likely carry out some kind of back-trajectory analysis, using the high-resolution met data, but does anybody have any particular requests? The goal is to help with data interpretation.
FATE/TRANSPORT MODELING: We will definitely carry out this kind of modeling and would like to collaborate in any way that makes sense…
For both the BACK-TRAJECTORY and FATE/TRANSPORT modeling, do we have the complete set of flight locations (lat/long/elevation) and times associated with each measurement?
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Extra Slides
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color of symbol denotes type of mercury source
coal-fired power plants
other fuel combustion
waste incineration
metallurgical
manufacturing & other
size/shape of symbol denotes amount of RGM) emitted during 2002 (kg/yr)
10 - 50
50 - 100
100 – 300
5 - 10
urban areas
Grand Bay NERR monitoring site
Watson
Daniel
Barry
Lowman
CristMobile
Pensacola
MississippiAlabama
Florida
Louisiana
Pascagoula MSW incinerator **
Brewton paper mill*
* Hg emissions included in 2002 NEI , but do not appear to be in 2000-2008 TRI ** Hg emissions included in 2002 NEI but incineration ceased in January 2001*** Significant Hg emissions in 2002 NEI, but negligible emissions reported in 2008 TRI
Eaton
Gaylord Container Bogalusa
IPSCO Steel ***
Biloxi-Gulfport
New Orleans
Hattiesburg
Slidell
Pascagoula
Location of the Grand Bay NERR sampling site, along with large point sources of RGM in the region, based on the EPA’s 2002 National Emissions Inventory
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Mercury Air Emissions from Charles R. Lowman Power Plant as reported to the Toxic Release Inventory
For some sources, there have been big changes since 2002, the date of the last comprehensive mercury inventory
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Current Atmospheric Measurements of Ambient Air Concentrations and Meteorological Data
Elemental mercury (two instruments)
Fine particulate mercury (two instruments)
Reactive gaseous mercury (two instruments)
Sulfur dioxide
Ozone
Carbon Monoxide
Nitrogen Oxides (NO, NOy)
Aerosol Black Carbon
Wind speed, Wind Direction
Temperature, Relative Humidity
Precipitation Amount
“Speciated” Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations
Trace gases and other measurements to help understand and interpret mercury data
Meteorological Data
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Wet Deposition Measurements added in 2010 by the Mississippi Department
of Environmental Protection (Henry Folmar, Becky Comyns, others), with
funding from the USEPA
Precipitation Continuous digital measurement of precipitation amount
Major IonspH, SO4
-2, NO3-, PO4
-3, Cl-,
NH4+, Ca+2, Mg+2, K+, Na+
Weekly measurements of concentrations in precipitation (NADP-NTN)
Total Mercury Weekly measurements of concentration in precipitation (NADP-MDN)
Methyl Mercury Monthly measurements of concentration in precipitation (composite)
Selected Trace MetalsAs, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Ni, Se, Zn
Weekly measurements of concentrations in precipitation (MDN Heavy Metal Protocol)
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