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The impact of temperature changes on summer time ozone and its' precursors in the Eastern Mediterranean

¹ Markakis

² Poupkou

² Melas

² Unal

⁴ Gerasopoulos

³ Daskalakis

¹ Kanakidou

Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory (ECPL), Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Physics, Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Thessaloniki, Greece

Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece

Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

07 02 2011

11 2 4355 4398

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Changes in temperature due to variability in meteorology and climate change are expected to significantly impact atmospheric composition. The Mediterranean is a climate sensitive region and includes megacities like Istanbul and large urban agglomerations such as Athens. The effect of temperature changes on gaseous air pollutant levels and the atmospheric processes that are controlling them in the Eastern Mediterranean are here investigated. The WRF/CMAQ mesoscale modeling system is used, coupled with the MEGAN model for the processing of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions. A set of temperature perturbations (spanning from 1 to 5 K) is applied on a base case simulation corresponding to July 2004. The results indicate that the Eastern Mediterranean basin acts as a reservoir of pollutants and their precursor emissions from large urban agglomerations. During summer, chemistry is a major sink at these urban areas near the surface, and a minor contributor at downwind areas. On average, the atmospheric processes are more effective within the first 1000 m. The response rate of biogenic emissions to temperature changes is calculated to be 9±3% K−1. Ozone concentrations respond almost linearly to the changes in the ambient temperature with rates of 1±0.1 ppb O3 K−1 for all studied urban and receptor stations except for Istanbul, where a 0.4±0.1 ppb O3 K−1 change rate is calculated, which is almost half of the domain-averaged increase of 0.9±0.1 ppb O3 K−1. The computed changes in atmospheric processes are also linearly related with temperature changes.

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