DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.08.015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84939805551
论文题名: Evaluation of model-predicted hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) near a mid-sized U.S. airport
作者: Vennam L ; P ; , Vizuete W ; , Arunachalam S
刊名: Atmospheric Environment
ISSN: 0168-2563
EISSN: 1573-515X
出版年: 2015
卷: 119 起始页码: 107
结束页码: 117
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Aircraft emissions
; CMAQ
; Formaldehyde
; Landing-takeoff
; Lower thrust idling emissions
Scopus关键词: Air pollution
; Air quality
; Aircraft
; Airports
; Civil aviation
; Environmental Protection Agency
; Forecasting
; Formaldehyde
; Hazardous materials
; Hazards
; Pollution
; Uncertainty analysis
; Aircraft emissions
; CMAQ
; Community multi-scale air quality models
; Hazardous air pollutants
; Horizontal resolution
; Incremental improvements
; International Civil Aviation Organization
; National air toxics assessments
; Fighter aircraft
; 1,3 butadiene
; acetaldehyde
; acrolein
; benzene
; formaldehyde
; toluene
; xylene
; acetaldehyde
; air quality
; aircraft emission
; atmospheric modeling
; atmospheric pollution
; concentration (composition)
; formaldehyde
; pollution policy
; spatiotemporal analysis
; air pollutant
; air quality
; aircraft
; airport
; Article
; aviation
; hazardous air pollutant
; health hazard
; human
; meteorology
; observational study
; priority journal
; risk assessment
; United States
; Rhode Island
; United States
Scopus学科分类: Environmental Science: Water Science and Technology
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Earth-Surface Processes
; Environmental Science: Environmental Chemistry
英文摘要: Accurate modeling of aircraft-emitted pollutants in the vicinity of airports is essential to study the impact on local air quality and to answer policy and health-impact related issues. To quantify air quality impacts of airport-related hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), we carried out a fine-scale (4 × 4 km horizontal resolution) Community Multiscale Air Quality model (CMAQ) model simulation at the T.F. Green airport in Providence (PVD), Rhode Island. We considered temporally and spatially resolved aircraft emissions from the new Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT). These model predictions were then evaluated with observations from a field campaign focused on assessing HAPs near the PVD airport. The annual normalized mean error (NME) was in the range of 36-70% normalized mean error for all HAPs except for acrolein (>70%). The addition of highly resolved aircraft emissions showed only marginally incremental improvements in performance (1-2% decrease in NME) of some HAPs (formaldehyde, xylene). When compared to a coarser 36 × 36 km grid resolution, the 4 × 4 km grid resolution did improve performance by up to 5-20% NME for formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. The change in power setting (from traditional International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 7% to observation studies based 4%) doubled the aircraft idling emissions of HAPs, but led to only a 2% decrease in NME. Overall modeled aircraft-attributable contributions are in the range of 0.5-28% near a mid-sized airport grid-cell with maximum impacts seen only within 4-16 km from the airport grid-cell. Comparison of CMAQ predictions with HAP estimates from EPA's National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) did show similar annual mean concentrations and equally poor performance. Current estimates of HAPs for PVD are a challenge for modeling systems and refinements in our ability to simulate aircraft emissions have made only incremental improvements. Even with unrealistic increases in HAPs aviation emissions the model could not match observed concentrations near the runway airport site. Our results suggest other uncertainties in the modeling system such as meteorology, HAPs chemistry, or other emission sources require increased scrutiny. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/81535
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作者单位: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNC, United States; Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNC, United States
Recommended Citation:
Vennam L,P,, Vizuete W,et al. Evaluation of model-predicted hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) near a mid-sized U.S. airport[J]. Atmospheric Environment,2015-01-01,119