@InProceedings{BelaLFBMWAJAW:2010:CoWRCC,
               author = "Bela, Megan M and Longo, Karla Maria and Freitas, Saulo Ribeiro 
                         and Beck, V and Moreira, Demerval Soares and Wiedemann, K T and 
                         Artaxo, Paulo and Juergens, N and Andreae, M O and Wofsy, S C",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and Max Planck Institute for 
                         Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and Institute of Physics, University 
                         of S{\~a}o Paulo, S{\~a}o Paulo, Brazil and Institute of 
                         Physics, University of S{\~a}o Paulo, S{\~a}o Paulo, Brazil and 
                         Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany and Max Planck 
                         Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany and School of Engineering 
                         and Applied Science/Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 
                         Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA",
                title = "Production and transport of ozone in the Amazon: comparison of 
                         WRF-Chem and CCATT-BRAMS Simulations with In-Situ observations 
                         from the BARCA campaigns",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2010",
         organization = "The Meeting of the Americas.",
            publisher = "AGU",
             keywords = "biosphere, atmosphere interactions, pollution urban, pollution 
                         regional, troposphere composition, troposphere chemistry, 
                         troposphere constituent transport.",
             abstract = "In the Amazon Basin, biogenic, biomass burning, and urban 
                         emissions react photochemically to produce ozone, which is then 
                         transported by convection and regional circulations. As the Amazon 
                         basin becomes increasingly populated and developed for 
                         agriculture, the ability to predict regional ozone distributions 
                         will be critical to mitigating pollution that harms human health, 
                         agriculture, and natural ecosystems. However, major uncertainties 
                         remain in characterizing emissions, photochemical processes and 
                         pollutant transport in the Amazon basin. In this study, basin-wide 
                         CO and O3 aircraft measurements taken during the BARCA 
                         (Balan{\c{c}}o Atmosf{\'e}rico Regional de Carbono na 
                         Amaz{\^o}nia) campaigns during the dry-to-wet (November and 
                         December 2008) and wet-to-dry (May 2009) transition seasons are 
                         used to evaluate the WRF-Chem and CCATT-BRAMS coupled chemistry 
                         and meteorology models, constrain emissions and analyze ozone 
                         budgets in the Amazon. The WRF-Chem (Weather Research and 
                         Forecasting with Chemistry) model developed at NOAA/ESRL was 
                         adapted in order to more realistically represent tropical 
                         meteorological and chemical processes. New WRF-Chem 
                         implementations include updated land cover and surface properties, 
                         soil moisture initialization from an off-line hydrological model, 
                         EDGAR4 urban emissions updated with vehicle emissions inventories 
                         for South American cities, and chemistry initial and boundary 
                         conditions from the MOCAGE global model. CCATT-BRAMS (Coupled 
                         Chemistry-Aerosol-Tracer Transport model coupled to the Brazilian 
                         developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) is 
                         currently in operational use for regional air quality forecasting 
                         at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). 
                         Simulations were conducted with both models using RACM (Regional 
                         Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanism) and parameterizations for shallow 
                         and deep convection and 1D plume rise, with a 30/10km 2-way 
                         nested-grid configuration covering the Amazon Basin. The 
                         performance of the meteorological models was evaluated using flux 
                         tower and surface meteorological station data and the TRMM 
                         precipitation product. Simulated CO and O3 mixing ratios are 
                         compared with in-situ observations from the BARCA campaigns, and 
                         the model performance in reproducing both individual flight tracks 
                         and regional distributions is evaluated.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u, BR",
      conference-year = "8-12 aug 2010",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "production and transport of ozone in the amazon.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "12 maio 2024"
}