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Effective Dry Deposition Velocities for Gases and Particles over Heterogeneous Terrain

Jianmin Ma Air Quality Modeling and Integration Research Division, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

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01 Aug 2000
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https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<1379:EDDVFG>2.0.CO;2
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1379–1390
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Abstract

Dry deposition velocities of gases and particles are highly dependent on surface type. In a numerical model, each grid cell may contain multiple surface types, each with a different deposition velocity. Therefore, some kind of averaging technique generally is used to compute the average of the subgrid-scale deposition velocities within a grid cell. In this paper, effective surface parameters are suggested to relate the mean properties of concentration and wind speed to the mean surface fluxes. An effective deposition velocity is computed subject to these effective surface parameters and a weighted-average technique. This effective deposition velocity is compared with an alternate weighted-average deposition velocity that has been used widely in numerical air quality models. For particles, the effective deposition velocity can be significantly different from the weighted-average deposition velocity. For some gases, for which biological factors often control the deposition process, the difference between these two average deposition velocities can still be distinguished for typical gases and surface properties.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Jianmin Ma, ARQI, Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin St., Downsview, ON M3H 5T4, Canada.

Abstract

Dry deposition velocities of gases and particles are highly dependent on surface type. In a numerical model, each grid cell may contain multiple surface types, each with a different deposition velocity. Therefore, some kind of averaging technique generally is used to compute the average of the subgrid-scale deposition velocities within a grid cell. In this paper, effective surface parameters are suggested to relate the mean properties of concentration and wind speed to the mean surface fluxes. An effective deposition velocity is computed subject to these effective surface parameters and a weighted-average technique. This effective deposition velocity is compared with an alternate weighted-average deposition velocity that has been used widely in numerical air quality models. For particles, the effective deposition velocity can be significantly different from the weighted-average deposition velocity. For some gases, for which biological factors often control the deposition process, the difference between these two average deposition velocities can still be distinguished for typical gases and surface properties.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Jianmin Ma, ARQI, Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin St., Downsview, ON M3H 5T4, Canada.

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