Is regional air quality model diversity representative of uncertainty for ozone simulation ? - Ineris - Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques Access content directly
Journal Articles Geophysical Research Letters Year : 2006

Is regional air quality model diversity representative of uncertainty for ozone simulation ?

Abstract

We examine whether seven state-of-the-art European regional air quality models provide daily ensembles of predicted ozone maxima that encompass observations. Using tools borrowed from the evaluation of ensemble weather forecasting, we analyze statistics of simulated ensembles of ozone daily maxima over an entire summer season. Although the model ensemble overestimates ozone, the distribution of simulated concentrations is representative of the uncertainty. The spread of simulations is due to random fluctuations resulting from differences in model formulations and input data, but also to the spread between individual model systematic biases. The ensemble average skill increases as the spread decreases. The skill of the ensemble in giving probabilistic predictions of threshold exceedances is also demonstrated. These results allow for optimism about the ability of this ensemble to simulate the uncertainty of the impact of emission control scenarios.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
2006GL027610.pdf (161.08 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Publisher files allowed on an open archive
Loading...

Dates and versions

ineris-00963044 , version 1 (17-09-2020)

Identifiers

Cite

Robert Vautard, M. van Loon, M. Schaap, R. Bergstrom, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. Is regional air quality model diversity representative of uncertainty for ozone simulation ?. Geophysical Research Letters, 2006, 33 (24), pp.art n° L24818. ⟨10.1029/2006GL027610⟩. ⟨ineris-00963044⟩
170 View
46 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More