Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 9 4 2009 10.5194/acpd-9-16011-2009 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/16011/2009/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/16011/2009/acpd-9-16011-2009.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/16011/2009/acpd-9-16011-2009.pdf 16011 16050 2009-07-28 Investigation of downscaling techniques for the linkage of global and regional air quality modeling Y. F. Lam J. S. Fu jsfu@utk.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Recent year, downscaling global atmospheric model outputs for the USEPA Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Initial (IC) and Boundary Conditions (BC) have become practical because of the rapid growth of computational technologies that allow global simulations can be completed within a reasonable time and have better performance. The traditional method of generating IC/BC by profile data has lost its advocators due to the weakness of the limited horizontal and vertical variations found on the gridded boundary layers. In this paper, we are in effort to investigate the effects of using profile IC/BC and global atmospheric model data. We utilize the GEOS-Chem model outputs to generate time-varied and layer-varied IC/BC for year 2002 using our newly development of tropopause determining algorithm. The purpose of the study is to determine the tropopause effect to the downscaling process. From the results, we have found that without considering tropopause in the downscaling process created unrealistic O₃ concentrations in IC/BC at the upper boundary conditions for regional tropospheric model. This phenomenon has caused over-prediction of surface O₃ in CMAQ. And it is greatly affected by temperature and latitudinal location. 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