Distributions of air pollutants and their precursors in the troposphere are driven largely by meteorological conditions (e.g., wind, cloud convection, lightning, and precipitation) and emissions such as those of NOx from anthropogenic sources (e.g., fossil fuel combustion) and natural sources (e.g., soils and lightning). As the most polluted regions in the world, North America and East Asia significantly contribute to climate change on both regional and global scales. Therefore, it deserves to investigate the vertical and horizontal distributions of the air pollutants in the troposphere over these two regions to better quantify the interaction between air pollution and climate change, which remains until now largely uninvestigated. Here, a Regional chEmical trAnsport Model (REAM) was developed and applied to examine the uncertainties in modeling the effect of convective transport and lightning NOx production on upper tropospheric chemical tracer distributions over North America, and to identify the features of air pollutions over East Asia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/28114 |
| Date | 31 March 2009 |
| Creators | Zhao, Chun |
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
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