Dataset for: Implications of sea breezes on air quality monitoring in a coastal urban environment, evidence from high resolution modeling of NO2 and O3
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Hourly averaged Pandora NO2 tropospheric vertical columns from Boston University, with coincidently sampled WRF-Chem NO2 tropospheric columns for overlapping grid box.
Surface observations of NO2 and O3 at MassDEP measurement sites, with coincidently sampled model NO2 and O3 mixing ratios for overlapping grid boxes
Ground-based observations of u10m and v10m winds in the study domain, with coincidently sampled model u10m and v10m winds for overlapping grid boxes
Daily 2 pm Local Time 3-D WRF-Chem modeled O3 and NO2 mixing ratios over the study domain
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Geddes, Jeffrey
Wang, Bo
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OA Version
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Abstract
This data contains observations and chemical transport model output relevant to an analysis of sea breeze impacts on local air quality in Boston. Model output are from a summer 2019 WRF-Chem simulation over the Northeast US, including the greater Boston region. Observational assets were compiled in order to evaluate the model performance.
Description
We present data relevant to an analysis of sea breeze impacts on the temporal and spatial distribution of primary and secondary air pollutants over the greater Boston area. WRF-Chem simulations were performed at 3 km x 3 km spatial resolution over the period of June 22 - July 10, 2019. We include daily snapshots of 3-D NO2, O3, and wind fields from the model. Observations were taken from routine air quality monitoring stations from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, routine meteorological observations collected and compiled by NOAA, and new observations collected by Pandora Spectrometer Systems at Boston University. These assets were analyzed and are fully described in an accompanying manuscript submitted first to the Journal of Geophysical Research (Article DOI to be provided).
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Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States