Grewe, Volker and Dahlmann, Katrin and Matthes, Sigrun and Steinbrecht, Wolfgang (2012) Attributing ozone to NOx emissions: Implications for climate mitigation measures. Atmospheric Environment, 59, pp. 102-107. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.05.002.
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Abstract
Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) lead to formation of ozone, which is an important greenhouse gas. Despite its relevance, little emphasis was previously given on verifying approaches to calculate contributions of individual emissions to ozone and hence to climate change. Basically two methods (perturbation method and tagging method) were used in the past. We demonstrate that both methods are valid and have their area of application, but only tagging calculates contributions of emissions to concentrations, whereas the perturbation method identifies changes in the ozone concentrations due to emission changes. Our results show that the contribution of road traffic emissions to climate change is underestimated by a factor of 5 in the perturbation method. This is caused by non-linear compensating effects from other emission sectors, which are concealed in the perturbation method but disclosed with tagging. Consequently, the effectiveness of mitigation measures for individual sectors (i.e. concentrating on road traffic induced ozone) is only correctly expressed by the tagging method. The perturbation method provides accurately the total impact (i.e. total ozone) of a mitigation measure. However, current approaches, which evaluate the effectiveness of a mitigation measure based on the perturbation approach, do not reflect changes in the chemical state of the atmosphere (i.e. ozone production rates). These largely affect the effectiveness of subsequent measures and hence make the evaluation of the effectiveness of two measures dependent on their chronology of application. We show that also in this regard, the tagging method is better suited to evaluate the effectiveness of a mitigation measure than the perturbation method.
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Document Type: | Article | ||||||||||||||||||||
Title: | Attributing ozone to NOx emissions: Implications for climate mitigation measures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: | November 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Atmospheric Environment | ||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.05.002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 102-107 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | NOx emissions; Climate change mitigation; Ozone chemistry; Tagging | ||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Transport, Space, Aeronautics | ||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Transport System, Earth Observation, ATM and Operation (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Transport, Raumfahrt, Aeronautics | ||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | V VS - Verkehrssystem, R EO - Earth Observation, L AO - Air Traffic Management and Operation | ||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | V - VEU (old), R - Atmospheric and climate research, L - Climate, Weather and Environment (old), V - Verkehrsentwicklung und Umwelt (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Atmospheric Dynamics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Grewe, Prof. Dr. Volker | ||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 21 Aug 2012 15:06 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 14:43 |
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