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Evaluation of emission inventory (EI) of air pollutants for Nanjing, China Y. ZHAO 1 , L. Qiu 1 , F. XIE 2 , Q. ZHANG 3 , Y. YU 4 , C. NIELSEN 5 , J. ZHANG 6 1. School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China 2. Nanjing Academy of Environmental Protection Science, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210013, China 3. Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 4. Nanjing Environmental Monitoring Central Station, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210013, China 5. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 6. Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, Nanjing, Top-Down Emissions Analyses, Oral Session 2

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Development and evaluation of EI in Nanjing Lots of efforts. But do those efforts REALLY improve the quality of bottom-up city-scale EI ?

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Evaluation of emission inventory (EI) of air

pollutants for Nanjing, China

Y. ZHAO1, L. Qiu1, F. XIE2, Q. ZHANG3, Y. YU4, C. NIELSEN5, J. ZHANG6

1. School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

2. Nanjing Academy of Environmental Protection Science, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210013, China

3. Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

4. Nanjing Environmental Monitoring Central Station, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210013, China

5. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

6. Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210036, China

Top-Down Emissions Analyses, Oral Session 2

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Background information of Nanjing Location: western Yangtze River Delta region in eastern China Intensive population and heavy industry (power, refinery, and steel) Large fossil fuel use (35 million metric tons coal in 2012) Serious air pollution (annual PM10 in 2013 over 130 ug/m3)

Strong motivation to develop and improve city-scale EI

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Development and evaluation of EI in Nanjing

Lots of efforts. But do those efforts REALLY improve the quality of bottom-up city-scale EI ?

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Emissions for typical sources/pollutants MEIC This work

Power SO2

Industrial PM2.5

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Spatial distribution of NOX emissions and NO2 VCDs

Agrees better with OMI observation compared to downscaled national

EI Still missed source along the Yangtze River (ships and factories)

Is the spatial distribution better captured ? Probably

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Correlation between emissions and VCDs

Particularly, emissions of medium/small sources are better detected.

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Correlation between species: emissions vs observation

BC/CO CO2/CO

Top-down constraint: 0.0084Bottom-up emissions:0.0097 (this work)/0.0095 (MEIC)

Top-down constraint: 86.9Bottom-up emissions:76.1 (this work)/52.8 (MEIC)

Can the correlations be tested by observation? Probably

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Main conclusions

Contact: [email protected]

For More Information:Zhao et al., Atmos Chem Phys,

15, 12623-12644, 2015.

Large point sources and super emitters play a key role on the level and spatial distribution of Nanjing emissions.

The improved spatial distribution of NOX emissions at city level

can be tested by satellite observation.

Correlations between certain species in emissions can be tested through top-down constraints from ground observation.